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

John Dewey

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
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 ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Gratitude Literature Possible World
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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
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
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
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
Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
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
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

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