We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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