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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

John Dewey

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Gratitude Literature Possible World
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science

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