“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”
Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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“Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
Journal entry (4 March 1906); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 8
Starck cited in: Priscilla Boniface, Peter Jon Fowler (1993) Heritage and Tourism: In the Global Village. p. 161: Starck is talking about the Groninger Museum.
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
This is a paraphrase of an idea that Dewey expressed using other words in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916); it is widely misattributed to Dewey as a quotation.
Cf. James William Norman, A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=qrmgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 p. 140] (emphasis added): "...there has for years been a strong and growing tendency in the United States under the leadership of Dewey, and more recently of Kilpatrick, to find an educational method correlative of democracy in society with the belief that education is life itself rather than a mere preparation for life, and that practice in democratic living is the best preparation for democracy."
Misattributed
Variant: Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
On Protracted Warfare (1938)
[Herrnson, Paul S., Women Running "as Women": Candidate Gender, Campaign Issues, and Voter-Targeting Strategies, The Journal of Politics, 2003, 65 no. 1]
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