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

John Dewey

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.
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Result Taste Thinking
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
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
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
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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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.
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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
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

Feeling God Myself Pretty
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Communication Existence
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
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 DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry

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