John Dewey Quotes
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.
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My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
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You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.
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I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
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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.
