Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYReflection 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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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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 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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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