Famous Quotes / John Dewey
33 Quotations by John Dewey
- 1. By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess a ...
- 2. Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to ...
- 3. Confidence... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
- 4. Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; educat ...
- 5. Education is life itself.
- 6. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- 7. Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consi ...
- 8. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to dem ...
- 9. Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily ...
- 10. It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to a ...
- 11. Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of t ...
- 12. Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and show ...
- 13. Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He h ...
- 14. Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
- 15. Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
- 16. Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive socia ...
- 17. Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende ...
- 18. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to impr ...
- 19. The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginar ...
- 20. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.