Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEYNothing 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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