The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
More John Dewey Quotes
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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