We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
More John Dewey Quotes
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY