We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEYThinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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