John Dewey Quotes, Thoughts and images
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
All genuine education comes about through experience.
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
To me faith means not worrying.
a problem well put is half solved.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
All genuine learning comes through experience.
What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.