The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEYThinking 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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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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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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