Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEYLike the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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 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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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