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 DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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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.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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