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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey in
Education
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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.
John Dewey
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Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
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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 alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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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.
John Dewey in
Work
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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