The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
JOHN DEWEY
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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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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