The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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