Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Quotes by John Dewey
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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
To me faith means not worrying.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
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