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A problem well put is half solved.

John Dewey

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem 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
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
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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Believe Education Experience Myself
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science

A problem well put is half solved.

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