Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYA problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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