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John Dewey Quotes

John Dewey quotes

American Philosopher October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "Education is a social process; education is growth; education..."
Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an..."
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey
Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land John Dewey
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns..."
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith. Faith that something should be in existence as far as lies in our power is changed into the intellectual belief that it is already in existence. When physical existence does not bear out the... John Dewey
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes..."
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "The most important attitude that can be formed is that of..."
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he..."
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey
John Dewey quote: "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer..."
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. John Dewey
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

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