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

John Dewey

Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
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.
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Drink Force Man Philosophy
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
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.
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Education Failure Tree
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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.
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Believe Mental Path Work
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.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
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
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.
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Feeling God Myself Pretty
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
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
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
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy

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

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