The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYInsecurity 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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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