As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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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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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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