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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

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 DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
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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Beginning Limitation Thinking
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Believe Mental Path Work
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
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
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
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World

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