John Dewey ( 10 of 19 )
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us read more
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the read more
...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.
To me faith means not worrying.
To me faith means not worrying.
