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.
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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 me faith means not worrying.
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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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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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