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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEY

Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
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
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
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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Believe Mental Path Work
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
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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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy

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