Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEYNever let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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