Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYAs long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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 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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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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