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A problem well put is half solved.

John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY

Goodness Man Moral Worth
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEY

Result Taste 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.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Communication Existence
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY

Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

Beyond Education End
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation

A problem well put is half solved.

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