Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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