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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.

John Dewey

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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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Beginning Limitation Thinking
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality

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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