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We only think when confronted with a problem.

John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation
Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

Beyond Education End
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEY

Communication Wonderful
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
JOHN DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking

We only think when confronted with a problem.

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