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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
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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Education Failure Tree
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Feeling God Myself Pretty
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy

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