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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. -

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey

Other quotes by John Dewey

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

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Adaptability
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John Dewey
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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
Author
John Dewey
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Back to School
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

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Back to School

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverb

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Back to School

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford

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Back to School

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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. – Joseph Conrad

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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm

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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. – William S. Burroughs

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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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