There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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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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