A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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