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.
JOHN DEWEYOf all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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 find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY






