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 DEWEYA problem well put is half solved.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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