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Thought is impossible without words.

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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.
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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
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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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We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.
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Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
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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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If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
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Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
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In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind it may lead to anything.
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It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.
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Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.
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Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.
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If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
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For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself it is its own end.
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