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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
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
To me faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success

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