The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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