Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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 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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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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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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