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.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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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.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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