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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.

John Dewey

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Different Talk Voice World
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
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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Gratitude Literature Possible World
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
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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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
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.
JOHN DEWEY

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
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEY

Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation

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