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.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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