The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEYThinking 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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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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