Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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