Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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 two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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