Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEYFailure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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