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Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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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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The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
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The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
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To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
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But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.
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