The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”
“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”
— JOHN DEWEY
Philosopher and educator · 1859 – 1952
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer, a central figure in pragmatism. His ideas on learning by doing profoundly shaped progressive education.
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