A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYAnyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY