The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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