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We only think when confronted with a problem.

John Dewey

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.
JOHN DEWEY

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

Beginning Place Thinking World
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry

We only think when confronted with a problem.

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