The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEYGive the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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 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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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