John Dewey Quotes


Education is not preparation for life education is life itself. John Dewey education 299
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be the device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes the method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men. John Dewey Philosophy 128
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey Imagination 123
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey Anger 115
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey Science 107
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value. John Dewey Religion 98
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. John Dewey Work 96
To me faith means not worrying. John Dewey Faith 93
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. John Dewey Democracy 89
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. John Dewey Facts 87
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. John Dewey Nature 85
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey Anyone 83
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. John Dewey Nature 82
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey Education 81
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Dewey History 79
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Education 79
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos. John Dewey Democracy 76
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey Failure 74
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. John Dewey Uncategorized 72
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 Education 70
We only think when we are confronted with problems. John Dewey Problems 70
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. John Dewey Teaching 69
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an John Dewey Education 69
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey Education 69
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. John Dewey Abstraction 67
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it. John Dewey Philosophy 66
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. John Dewey Nature 65
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey Doubt 64
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey Work 64
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey Progress 62
a problem well put is half solved. John Dewey Knowledge 58
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. John Dewey Thought 52
Like the soil mind is fertilized while it lies fallow until a new burst of bloom ensues. John Dewey Mind 49
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. John Dewey Luck 48
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of diversion and preference. John Dewey Ideas 48
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood. John Dewey Children 44
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey Actions 42
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey Happy 42
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result. John Dewey Uncategorized 35
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. John Dewey Education 34
No man's credit is as good as his money. John Dewey Money 33
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey Goals 30
We only think when we are confronted with a problem. John Dewey Uncategorized 29
Of all affairs communication is the most wonderful. John Dewey Communication 28
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools. John Dewey Uncategorized 25

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