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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

John Dewey

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 DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
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.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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
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
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching

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