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John Dewey

John Dewey

John Dewey (FAA October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
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