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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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