The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.John Dewey
The very problem of mind and body suggests division I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of intellectuals from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
John Dewey
A democracy is more than a form of government it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience
John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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
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.
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