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.
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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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