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 DEWEYThe path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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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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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.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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