Education Quotes by John Dewey · Page 2

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

— John Dewey

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

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

— 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

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

— John Dewey

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into…

— John Dewey

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

— John Dewey

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is…

— John Dewey

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…

— John Dewey

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking;…

— John Dewey

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

— 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

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they…

— John Dewey

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly…

— John Dewey

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as…

— John Dewey

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to…

— John Dewey

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach…

— John Dewey

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets…

— John Dewey

I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…

— John Dewey

There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of…

— 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

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot…

— John Dewey

It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions…

— John Dewey

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of…

— John Dewey

The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to…

— John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

— John Dewey

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a…

— John Dewey

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy…

— John Dewey

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

— John Dewey