Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEYTo me, faith means not worrying.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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