The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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.
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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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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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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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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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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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