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.
JOHN DEWEYTo me faith means not worrying.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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 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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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