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

John Dewey

We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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 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.
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Beginning Limitation Thinking
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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
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.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY

Failure Learning Person Success Thinking

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