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"50 John Dewey Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 October 1859. Died: 1 June 1952 | Philosopher | Psychologist | Educational reformer |

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Genuine Education Experience
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

We Facts Thinking
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We only think when confronted with a problem.

We Think Confronted Problem
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Notable distinction Living Renewal
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Politics Shadow Business Change
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Affairs Communication Wonderful
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important

Deepest Urge Human nature Desire
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We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

We Learn Experience Reflecting
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Advance Science Audacity Imagination
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure Instructive Learns Successes
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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.

Pupils Learn Nature Thinking
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Self Formation Choice Action
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Hunger not to have, but to be

Hunger To have Be
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There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Difference World Something Say
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Teach Students Rob Tomorrow
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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

Find out Secure Opportunity Happiness
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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

Instructors Quality Educative growth Teaching
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Good man Morally Unworthy Become better
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

Goal Education Individuals Continue
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Taste Result Reward Thinking
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists
Art Mode Communication Exists
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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Scientific Laws Nature Active
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To me faith means not worrying

Faith Worrying
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs

Path Mental Work Beliefs
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Abolish War Peace Heroic
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning

Important Attitude Desire Learning
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Soil Mind Ferterlized New
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We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future

Live Time Experience Future
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Wonder is the mother of all science.

Wonder Mother Science
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another

Arriving Goal Starting point
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Educational Process End
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Anyone Think World Jeopardy
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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.

Literature World Praise Possible
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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.

Limits Thinking Perplexed Situation
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Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
Education Process Growth Life
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The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Best Preparation Future Today
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Believe Education Progress Reform
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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Learning Begins Comfortable Ideas
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The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Knowledge Skill Experience Learning
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How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Child Free Responsible Citizen
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Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Education Sense Social Life
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Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Schools Active Social change Order
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Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Democracy Born Generation Education
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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art Writers Painters Expression
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Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

Schools Value Experience Teach
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The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.
Need Growth Change Life
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In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Brief Function Knowledge Experience
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The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

Need Growth Immaturity Negative
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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Time Memory Reality Heart's desire
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Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Confidence Courage Facts Life
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John Dewey Quotes & Sayings