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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
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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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
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
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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.
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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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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Gratitude Literature Possible World
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End

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