Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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