"We only think when we are confronted with problems."
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John Dewey
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205 Quotes by John Dewey
John Dewey has 205 quotes on this site.
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
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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.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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More Confronted Quotes
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one of 296 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet…
— Jimmy Carter
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There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering…
— Dick Cheney
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When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
— Andy Andrews
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If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves.…
— Dale Carnegie
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
— Jeff Cox
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Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since…
— George S. Patton
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I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
— Drake
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
— Ken Kesey
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A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.
— Peter Dunne
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