Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEYI 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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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