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John Dewey Quotes

» Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

» The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

» Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

» The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

» 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.

» Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

» Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

» 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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