As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEYA problem well put is half solved.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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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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