Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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 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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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 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.
JOHN DEWEY