A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYNever let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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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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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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