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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Thought is impossible without words.
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The premium so often put in schools upon external discipline, and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!
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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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The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
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Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
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What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.
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Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
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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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The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.
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A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking learning naturally results.
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