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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.

John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
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.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
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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Beginning Limitation Thinking
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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 DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.

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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.

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