Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYIn 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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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