We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEYLike the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
More John Dewey Quotes
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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