Education Quotes by John Dewey

Education is life itself.

— John Dewey

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

— John Dewey

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

— John Dewey

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

— John Dewey

All genuine education comes about through experience.

— John Dewey

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools…

— John Dewey

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he…

— John Dewey

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core…

— John Dewey

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations…

— John Dewey

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

— John Dewey

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon…

— 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 changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to…

— John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for…

— John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in…

— John Dewey

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing…

— John Dewey

“Preparation" is a treacherous idea. In a certain sense every experience should do something to prepare a person for later experiences of…

— John Dewey

“It is [the teacher's] business to be on the alert to see what attitudes and habitual tendencies are being created. In this…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— John Dewey

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— 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

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

— John Dewey

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

— John Dewey

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

— John Dewey

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

— John Dewey

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

— John Dewey

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

— John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

— John Dewey