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

John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
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
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
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
To me faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work

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