Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEYHolding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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