"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."

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Source : John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

John Dewey

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“The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.”
“God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder â€” does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?”
“Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.”
“On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far”
“I love theater. I grew up doing theater.”
“Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
“The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.”
“Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

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