Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

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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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"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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"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."

- John Dewey

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"The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning."

- John Dewey

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"We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience."

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

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"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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