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 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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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