Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYAnyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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 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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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