We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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