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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.

John Dewey

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Different Talk Voice World
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
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 DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEY

Communication Wonderful
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

Beyond Education End
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 DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation

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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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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