A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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