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.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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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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