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John Dewey (October 20, 1859 June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism (along with Charles Sanders Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William James), a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. education during the first half of the 20th century. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

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"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."

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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."

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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."

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"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."

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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

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"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

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"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."

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

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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."

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