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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey

“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.”
― John Dewey

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
― John Dewey

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”
― John Dewey

“A problem well put is half solved.”
― John Dewey

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”
― John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
― John Dewey