If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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