The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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