Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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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 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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY