A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEYWe only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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