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

John Dewey

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Believe Mental Path Work
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic

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