John Dewey Quotes

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness...

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for bett...

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

To me faith means not worrying.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

To me faith means not worrying.

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more ...

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

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experien...

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness...

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He h...

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie...

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

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wre...

. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the...

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and...

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is ...

Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth...

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

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and metho...

A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question it would mean abandoni...

Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving sprin...

A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impuls...

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and...

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the e...

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is n...

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has...

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct an...

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… ...

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any c...

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

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the...

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding...

Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be ...

a problem well put is half solved.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like ...

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beg...

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in ...

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to dem...

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende...

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