There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEYThe good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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