Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEYI 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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