John Dewey Short Quotes

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The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

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Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

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Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

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The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

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Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

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Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

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We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

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Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

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The moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

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The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

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It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

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All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

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Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

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Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

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Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

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Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

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

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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

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Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

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