Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. ✨ John Dewey (19…

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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. ✨ John Dewey (1998). Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition, p.1, Kappa Delta Pi
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. ✨ John Dewey (1972). The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays, p.93, SIU Press
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, … ▶
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order ✨ John Dewey (1987). The Later Works, 1925-1953, p.408, SIU Press
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. ✨ John Dewey (1998). Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition, p.1, Kappa Delta Pi

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