In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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