Quote by John Dewey
Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be acco

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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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. – John Dewey

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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. – Alfred North Whitehead

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A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. – Author unknown, from The Galveston Daily News, 1894 June 10th

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