The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEYHear 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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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.
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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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