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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
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
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Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
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I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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