In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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