The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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 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 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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A problem well put is half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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