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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
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
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
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
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
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

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