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.
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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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