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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

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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

Drink Force Man Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
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
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY

Goodness Man Moral Worth
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY

Failure Learning Person Success Thinking

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