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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.

John Dewey

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Change Politics
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking

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