Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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