“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey
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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.”
― John Dewey |
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
― John Dewey |
“Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.”
― John Dewey |
“Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.”
― John Dewey |
“The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.”
― John Dewey
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“The school must be “a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons.”
― John Dewey
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“Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.”
― John Dewey
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“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.”
― John Dewey
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“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
― John Dewey |
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
― John Dewey |
“Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.”
― John Dewey |
“Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.”
― John Dewey
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“How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?”
― John Dewey |
“To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.”
― John Dewey
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“To “learn from experience” is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.”
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“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it’s children.”
― John Dewey
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“You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.”
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“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
― John Dewey |
“Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.”
― John Dewey |
“Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.”
― John Dewey |
“The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.”
― John Dewey |
. “Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.”
― John Dewey
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“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.”
― John Dewey
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“Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality."
― John Dewey
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Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.”
― John Dewey
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