There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEY
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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY