Old Practices Quotes by John Dewey

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• Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
• Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…
• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…
• Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is…
• The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

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