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.
JOHN DEWEYThe good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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 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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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