Learning Quotes by John Dewey

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

— John Dewey

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

— John Dewey

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

— John Dewey

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

— John Dewey

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

— John Dewey

All genuine learning comes through experience.

— John Dewey

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in…

— John Dewey

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

— John Dewey

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to…

— John Dewey

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one…

— John Dewey

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is…

— John Dewey

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

— John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to…

— John Dewey

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

— John Dewey

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather,…

— John Dewey

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important…

— John Dewey

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of…

— John Dewey

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be…

— John Dewey

“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to…

— John Dewey

What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with…

— John Dewey

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use…

— John Dewey

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which…

— John Dewey

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is…

— John Dewey

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

— John Dewey

“Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important…

— John Dewey

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of…

— John Dewey