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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.

John Dewey

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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
In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY

Failure Learning Person Success Thinking

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