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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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Change Politics
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
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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEY

Communication Wonderful
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science

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