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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

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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
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
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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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Feeling God Myself Pretty
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
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself

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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