Education Quotes by John Dewey · Page 2

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative…

— 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

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

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

— John Dewey

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— 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

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— John Dewey

Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake…

— John Dewey

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the…

— John Dewey

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

“Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

— John Dewey