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

John Dewey

In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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
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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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
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
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
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
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 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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Feeling God Myself Pretty
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

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