The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEYTo 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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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