The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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