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Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself it is its own end.
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It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
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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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Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.
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Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
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As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
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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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All direction is but re-direction it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.
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Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
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Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
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Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.
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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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