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.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
More John Dewey Quotes
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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