Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEYThe conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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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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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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