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John Dewey Quotes
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Famous John Dewey Quotations
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United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
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- Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey »
- Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent. John Dewey »
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey »
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey »
- Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it. John Dewey »
- The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey »
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey »
- 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. John Dewey »
- There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. John Dewey »
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey »
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. John Dewey »
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