John Dewey Quotes
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.
Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
