Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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