John Dewey Quotes
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
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.
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.
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
