Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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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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.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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