Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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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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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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