The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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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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