The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEYThinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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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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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 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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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