We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
JOHN DEWEYWe may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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