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.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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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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.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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 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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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