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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.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Gratitude Literature Possible World
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEY

Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity

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

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