Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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.
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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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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