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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.

John Dewey

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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Beginning Limitation Thinking

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