John Dewey Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
-- John Dewey

#Happiness #Work #Opportunity

“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
-- John Dewey

#Democracy #Generations #Born

“Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.”
-- John Dewey

#Affair #Process #Constructive

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
-- John Dewey

#Change #Creativity #Science

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
-- John Dewey

#Inspirational #Motivational #Business

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
-- John Dewey

#Life #Inspiring #Education

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
-- John Dewey

#Education #Future #Learning

“To me faith means not worrying.”
-- John Dewey

#Faith #Spiritual #Positive Thinking

“There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”
-- John Dewey

#Differences #World

“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.”
-- John Dewey

#Mistake #Learning From Mistakes #Learning Experience

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
-- John Dewey

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

“I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.”
-- John Dewey

#Teacher #Children #Educational

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
-- John Dewey

#Spiritual #Self #Choices

“a problem well put is half solved.”
-- John Dewey

#Half #Problem #Wells

“Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.”
-- John Dewey

#Mind #Mark #Skepticism

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”
-- John Dewey

#Love #Inspirational #Life

“Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.”
-- John Dewey

#Religious #Emotional #Views

“Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.”
-- John Dewey

#Thinking #Progress #World

“As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.”
-- John Dewey

#Art #Civilization #Long

“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”
-- John Dewey

#Names #Matter #Void

“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”
-- John Dewey

#Mistake #Failure #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.”
-- John Dewey

#Beautiful #Flower #Garden

“I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.”
-- John Dewey

#Educational #Moving #Believe

“I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
-- John Dewey

#Education #Children #Believe

“The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.”
-- John Dewey

#Equality #Term #Aim

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
-- John Dewey

#Teaching #Growth #Quality

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”
-- John Dewey

#Goal #Individual

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

#Art #Expression #Individuality

“Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.”
-- John Dewey

#Children #Freedom #Thinking

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”
-- John Dewey

#War #Way #Heroic