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John Dewey

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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.


— John Dewey


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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.


— 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.


— John Dewey


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To me faith means not worrying.


— 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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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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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.


— John Dewey


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We only think when we are confronted with problems.


— John Dewey


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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.


— John Dewey


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See also
List of American philosophers
Center for Dewey Studies
Democratic education
John Dewey Society
Inquiry-based science
Laboratory school
Learning by teaching
League for Independent Political Action. He has been called an instrumentalist an experimentalist an empiricist a functionalist and a naturalist. In 1899 Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20 1859 – June 1 1952) was an American philosopher psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education he also wrote about many other topics including experience nature art logic inquiry democracy and ethics.

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