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A problem well put is half solved.

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
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
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
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
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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
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.
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Education Failure Tree
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation

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