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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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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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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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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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 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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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