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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner

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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