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

John Dewey

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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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Believe Education Experience Myself
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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

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