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.
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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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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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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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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