Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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To me faith means not worrying.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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