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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.

John Dewey

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Education Failure Tree
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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Education Future Life Live Preparation
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Believe Mental Path Work
We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Change Politics
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY

Failure Learning Person Success Thinking

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