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

John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

Beyond Education End
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People

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