Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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