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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

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. – John Dewey

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Education
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John Dewey
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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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John Dewey
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

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Failure
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John Dewey
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Other Quotes from
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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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. – Mortimer Adler

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Back to School

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

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. – Erma Bombeck

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Back to School

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Cant Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we arent around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten. – Tom Colicchio

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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas

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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You dont have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You dont have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. – Steve Jobs

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