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

John Dewey

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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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.
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Beginning Limitation Thinking
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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
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
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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
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
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
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.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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

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

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