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.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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