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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

We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
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 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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Education Failure Tree
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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
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

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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