“ We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. ”
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“ Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. ”
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“ Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire. ”
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“ Education […] is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ”
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“ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ”
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“ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ”
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“ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ”
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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. ”
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“ The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education. ”
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“ There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. ”
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“ Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it. ”
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“ Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ”
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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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“ Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”
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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. ”
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“ Mathematics is often cited as an example of purely normative thinking dependent upon a priori canons and supraempirical material. But it is hard to see how the student who approaches the matter historically can avoid the conclusion that the status of mathematics is as empirical as metallurgy. ”
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“ Experience presents itself as the method, and the only method, for getting at nature, penetrating its secrets, and wherein nature empirically discloses (by the use of empirical method in natural science) deepens, enriches and directs the further development of experience. ”
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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. ”
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“ For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities. ”
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“ Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. ”
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“ The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education. ”
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“ There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. ”
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