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Ends Quotes by John Dewey
- I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in…
- Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.
- Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
- Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of…
- The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to…
- In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as…
- The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its…
- The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
- The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
- 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…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman