Hunger not to have, but to be.
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.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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