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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

John Dewey
Teaching, Learning, Ideas

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

John Dewey
Education, Future, Learning
John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

John Dewey
Running, Learning, School

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

John Dewey
Education, Teacher, Learning

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

John Dewey
Teacher, Learning, Calling
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

John Dewey
Children, Learning, Live For Today

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

John Dewey
Learning, School, Mean
John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.51, Courier Corporation

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey
Teaching, Learning, Care
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Sheba Blake Publishing

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