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“Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply…” quote by John Dewey — Download Open image

“Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.”

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within…

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I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things,…

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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

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Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against…

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There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might…

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Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

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The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

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Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women…

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No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.

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