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“The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue…” quote by John Dewey — Download Open image

“The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.”

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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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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that…

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No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the…

David Lloyd George

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It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote…

Alexander Fraser Tytler

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A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,…

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is…

Winston Churchill

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Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the…

Sarah Josepha Hale

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For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

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Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

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Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the…

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In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked…

Alejandro Castro Espin

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