John Dewey Quotes
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. 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. Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. 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. Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. No man's credit is as good as his money. One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. 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. The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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