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.
JOHN DEWEYEducation 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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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