The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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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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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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.
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