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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.

John Dewey

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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem
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 DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Different Talk Voice World
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

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

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
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
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.
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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success

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