John Dewey

(381 votes)   Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

John Dewey
1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator

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(113 votes)   There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

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(109 votes)   The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a ''pet'' notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

John Dewey
1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator

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(107 votes)   We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator

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(105 votes)   The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

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1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator

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(96 votes)   Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

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(68 votes)   Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

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(62 votes)   Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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(59 votes)   Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

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(59 votes)   We only think when we are confronted with problems.

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(58 votes)   Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

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(58 votes)   Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.

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(55 votes)   The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

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(53 votes)   Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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(52 votes)   The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

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