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 DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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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.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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