Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Education is not the preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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.
An ounce of experience is better than a ton of theory.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey Quotes part 2
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Nature is a great and inescapable teacher. It whispers in our ears. It presents us with truth.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.
We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.
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.
Democracy must be born anew with each generation, and education is its midwife.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight if possible.
Every experience by which another person ceases to be a stranger is an experience of education.
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.
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract.
The only definition by which we have a right to decide whether a person is educated or not is that he lives by the comprehension of his own values.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Knowledge is not a separate thing; it is a conception of a process of experience.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. He would cease to be alive.
A problem well-put is half-solved.
The problem is not how to find the answer but how to face the answer.
I am not a thing – an object – among other things; I am a thinking being, capable of determining my own actions and research.
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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