The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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