The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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