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.
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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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