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.
JOHN DEWEYThinking 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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