John Dewey on fear
John Dewey53 quotes“Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.”
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Wonder is the mother of all science.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
John DeweyJohn Dewey I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
John DeweyJohn Dewey 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.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
John DeweyJohn Dewey 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.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
John DeweyJohn Dewey 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.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
John DeweyJohn Dewey The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
John DeweyJohn Dewey We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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