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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

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
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
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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry

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

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