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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

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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
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
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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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

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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