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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

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

Education Philosophy
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.
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Believe Mental Path Work
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
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
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
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
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
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation

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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