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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

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.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
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
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 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
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

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