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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey in
Education
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Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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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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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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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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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Work
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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
John Dewey
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Science
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
John Dewey
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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey
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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
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