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.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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