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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.

John Dewey

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
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
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEY

Communication Wonderful

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