Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEYTo find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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