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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.

John Dewey

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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
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
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
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

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
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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Believe Education Experience Myself
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEY

Result Taste Thinking
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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

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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