The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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