Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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