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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.
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Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
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When reality is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.
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To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
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By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
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Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.
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The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
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A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.
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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
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Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about data in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.
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In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
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No man's credit is as good as his money.
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.
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