Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEYWe only think when confronted with a problem.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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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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