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 DEWEYOf all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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