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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

To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Communication Existence
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
JOHN DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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 DEWEY

Gratitude Literature Possible World
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Different Talk Voice World
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation

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