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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

John Dewey

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
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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Education Failure Tree
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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Gratitude Literature Possible World
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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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Business Failure Life Tragedy True

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

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