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

John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEY

Result Taste Thinking
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
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
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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
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
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
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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
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
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
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
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem

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