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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

John Dewey
Attitude, Desire, Important
John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

John Dewey
Important, Desire, Human Nature

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

John Dewey
Mean, Desire, Used
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.321, SIU Press

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

John Dewey
Powerful, Class, Desire
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.38, SIU Press

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