“We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.”
Experience and education
John Dewey, Experience and Education
The Hall of Fragments
Bell commentators have connected this passage to the Doctrine of Mutual Becoming. The present cannot be bypassed; each moment becomes part of what prepares us for the next.