Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEYFailure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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