A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEYI believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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