We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEYA problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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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.
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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.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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