To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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