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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.

John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY

Goodness Man Moral Worth
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
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
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
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
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY

Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself

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