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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

John Dewey

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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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

Feeling God Myself Pretty
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Change Politics

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