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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

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
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
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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
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
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

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

Inspirational Problem
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem

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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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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