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.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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