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 DEWEYTo find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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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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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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