If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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 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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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