The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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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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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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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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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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