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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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Forty 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.
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Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
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