Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More John Dewey Quotes
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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