In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYInsecurity 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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