Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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