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

John Dewey

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Change Politics
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
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
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
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

Gratitude Literature Possible World

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