Education Quotes by John Dewey

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or…

— John Dewey

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with…

— John Dewey

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate…

— 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

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

— John Dewey

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

— John Dewey

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession…

— John Dewey

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are…

— John Dewey

There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma…

— John Dewey

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

— John Dewey

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…

— John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which…

— John Dewey

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

— John Dewey

Education is life itself.

— John Dewey

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

— John Dewey

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…

— John Dewey

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…

— John Dewey

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

— John Dewey

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and…

— John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

— 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

“The lesson for progressive education is that it requires in an urgent degree, a degree more pressing than was incumbent upon former…

— John Dewey