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

John Dewey

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Intellectual Logic
To me, faith means not worrying.
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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.
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Art Communication Existence
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
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
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
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
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
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
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.
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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
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking

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