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 DEWEYArt is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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 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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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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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.
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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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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.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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