There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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