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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.

John Dewey

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live 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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality

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