Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEYReflection 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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