Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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