Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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.
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