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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

John Dewey

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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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
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
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
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
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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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Growth Lie Mindset
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
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
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
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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