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

John Dewey

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
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.
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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation

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