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.
JOHN DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
More John Dewey Quotes
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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.
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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 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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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