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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

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

Live Philosophy
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
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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Believe Education Experience Myself
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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Gratitude Literature Possible World
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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Beginning Limitation Thinking
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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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Believe Mental Path Work
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking

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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