John Dewey Quotes About Learning
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One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
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To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.
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Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
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Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
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Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.
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