Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYTo me, faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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