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 DEWEYThe good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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