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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

John Dewey

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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
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
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Gratitude Literature Possible World
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
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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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Act Action Feeling Thinking
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way

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