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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.

John Dewey

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

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
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
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
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
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
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success

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