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.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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 a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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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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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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