The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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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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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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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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 path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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