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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.

John Dewey

We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY

Goodness Man Moral Worth
The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
JOHN DEWEY

Gratitude Literature Possible World
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning

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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