Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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