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.
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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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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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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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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