John Dewey Quotes

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

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

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.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

a problem well put is half solved.

To me faith means not worrying.

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.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

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.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

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

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.