The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEYTo me, faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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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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