Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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