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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Action
Choice
Self
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
Happiness
Opportunity
Key
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
History
Beliefs
Man
Old
Surrender
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey
Jeopardy
World
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Imagination
Science
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey
Education
Future
Living
Preparation
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education
Life
Preparation
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Goal
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
Failure