In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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 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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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