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Active Quotes by John Dewey
- Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
- Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
- There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of…
- The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery…
- 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…
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- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to… — Annie Besant
- As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a… — Allen Boyd
- People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne
- All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall
- Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand… — Madeleine Albright