“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: education
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Education, therefore, is a process of living
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: future
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Such happiness as life is capable of
“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
Author: John Dewey
Category: happiness
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The belief that all genuine education comes
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: experience
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Education, therefore, is a process of living
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: education
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Education is not preparation for life; education
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: life
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Every great advance in science has issued
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: great
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To find out what one is fitted
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: work
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Man is not logical and his intellectual
“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
Author: John Dewey
Category: history
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Failure is instructive. The person who really
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: failure
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The good man is the man who,
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
— John Dewey
Author: John Dewey
Category: good
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