But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique exi…

John Dewey
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But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, R. W. Sleeper (2008). The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941, p.112, SIU Press
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ✨ John Dewey (1972). The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays, p.87, SIU Press
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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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