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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.

John Dewey

We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
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 DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY

Goodness Man Moral Worth
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEY

Result Taste Thinking
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Gratitude Literature Possible World

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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