Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.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.
John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey
Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
John Dewey
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
John Dewey
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