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Quote by John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. -

Education is not 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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Failure
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John Dewey
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Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey

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Ignorance
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John Dewey
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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. – John Dewey

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Experience
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Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. – Margaret Laurence

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You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. – John W. Gardner

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Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. – Author Unknown

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We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde

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