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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.

John Dewey

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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
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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End

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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