Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEYThinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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