To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEYI 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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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