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 DEWEYEducation 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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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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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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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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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.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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