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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation
In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
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
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
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
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
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
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
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

Beyond Education End
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

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