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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

John Dewey

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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEY

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

Growth Lie Mindset
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
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
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
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 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
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection

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