“The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning .”
― John Dewey
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“Education is not an affair of ‘telling’ and being told, but an active and constructive process.”
― John Dewey |
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
― John Dewey |
“As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
― John Dewey |
“When “reality” is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.”
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"..Thought represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.”
―John Dewey
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“To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.”
― John Dewey
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“I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.”
― John Dewey |
“Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.”
― John Dewey |
“A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.”
― John Dewey |
“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”
― John Dewey
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“There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”
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“Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.”
― John Dewey
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“Men’s fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.”
― John Dewey |
“Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.”
― John Dewey
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“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey
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“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
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“The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness..”
―John Dewey
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“Always make the other person feel important.”
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“Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.”
― John Dewey |
“We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.”
― John Dewey
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“There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.”
― John Dewey
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“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”
― John Dewey
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“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
― John Dewey
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