The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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