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John Dewey Quotes: You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
         

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.


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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.



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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.



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The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.





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