Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavour to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey quote Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favouring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
John Dewey quote Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has colour but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey quote 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.
John Dewey quote Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey quote Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey quote Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey quote 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.
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