Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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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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