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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

John Dewey

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People
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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEY

Result Taste Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner

Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

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