The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEYHear 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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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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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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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