Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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