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.
JOHN DEWEY
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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