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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
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
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
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

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