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.
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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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