Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEYHunger not to have, but to be.
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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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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