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• Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.

  John Dewey

  Children, Views, Parent

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

  John Dewey

  Memories, Reflection, Sheep

  John Dewey (2007). “Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

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  Art, Expression, Individuality

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.226, Indiana University Press

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• To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

  John Dewey

  Happiness, Work, Opportunity

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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• The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

  John Dewey

  Important, Desire, Human Nature

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• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Growth, Quality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.132, 谷月社

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• Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

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  Mean, Intelligent, Matter

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.109, SIU Press

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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 and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Facts, Reason Why

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

  John Dewey

  Coins, Soil, Human Nature

  John Dewey (2012). “Human Nature and Conduct”, p.296, Courier Corporation

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• Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

  John Dewey

  Art, Communication, Art Is

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.291, SIU Press

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• In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.

  John Dewey

  Opportunity, Order, Numbers

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

  John Dewey

  School, Pouring, Ignored

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• Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

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  Inspirational, Time, Memories

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

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• The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Mind, Sound

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

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  Inspirational, Change, Integrity

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

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  Growth, Fundamentals, Development

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• To me faith means not worrying.

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  Faith, Spiritual, Mean

  John Dewey, Donald F Koch (2008). “Lectures on Ethics, 1900 - 1901: John Dewey”, p.140, SIU Press

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• For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Principles, Needs

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

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  Growth, Understood

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• The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

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  War, Way, Heroic

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• a problem well put is half solved.

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  Half, Problem, Wells

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ernest Nagel (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938”, p.112, SIU Press

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• Thought is impossible without words.

  John Dewey

  Impossible

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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