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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

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
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
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
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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Believe Mental Path Work
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation

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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