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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

John Dewey

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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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Act Action Feeling Thinking
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
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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Beginning Limitation Thinking
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Believe Mental Path Work
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
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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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Education Future Life Live Preparation
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

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