Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEYIn 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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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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