The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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