The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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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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