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.
JOHN DEWEYAs long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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