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.
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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A problem well put is half solved.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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