We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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