Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY
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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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