The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEYTo me faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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