Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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