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We only think when confronted with a problem.

John Dewey

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
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
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
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
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy

We only think when confronted with a problem.

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