The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYArt is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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