Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEYHunger not to have, but to be.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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