Quote by John Dewey
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential poin

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. – 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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Education
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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

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Ignorance
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. – John Dewey

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work
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One learns to itch where one can scratch. – Ernest Bramah

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Adaptability

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. – Heinrich Heine

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Adaptability

They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business. – Source Unknown

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Adaptability

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. – Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Adaptability

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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Better dead sure than sure dead. – Author unknown

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Wisdom

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor he betrays the interest of his country. – Noah Webster

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