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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

John Dewey

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

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
To me faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
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 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
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
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Different Talk Voice World
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation 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.
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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People

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