Hunger not to have, but to be
John DeweyEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John DeweyWe always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
John DeweyFailure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John DeweyTags: wisdom experience mistakes learning-from-mistakes
We only think when confronted with a problem.
John DeweyThe self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John DeweyFor 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 DeweyConflict 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 DeweyForty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land
John DeweyThere 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 DeweyTags: education philosophy
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