Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYThe most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
More John Dewey Quotes
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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