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Quotes by John Dewey

“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
 
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Every great advancement in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

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Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
 
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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.

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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

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