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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.
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Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.
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The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
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Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
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Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.
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Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general liberty, so to speak, at large.
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Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.
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The words environment, medium denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.
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Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.
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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
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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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If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.
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Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.
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Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.
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