There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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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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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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