A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYHear 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY