The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
JOHN DEWEYThe self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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