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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

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality

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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