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.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
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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 me, faith means not worrying.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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.
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