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.
JOHN DEWEYAnyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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