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Learning Quotes by John Dewey
- The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the…
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it…
- All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
- To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the…
- The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no…
- The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a…
- As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
- 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…
- There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished…
- 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…
- Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling…
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
- 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.
- The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
- Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
- The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus