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John Dewey

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


— John Dewey


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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.


— John Dewey


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We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.


— John Dewey


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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.


— John Dewey


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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.


— John Dewey


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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.


— John Dewey


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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.


— John Dewey


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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.


— John Dewey


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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.


— John Dewey


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


— John Dewey


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See also
List of American philosophers
Center for Dewey Studies
Democratic education
John Dewey Society
Inquiry-based science
Laboratory school
Learning by teaching
League for Independent Political Action. He has been called an instrumentalist an experimentalist an empiricist a functionalist and a naturalist. In 1899 Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20 1859 – June 1 1952) was an American philosopher psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education he also wrote about many other topics including experience nature art logic inquiry democracy and ethics.

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