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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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.
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Beginning Limitation Thinking
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

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