Educational Quotes by 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

That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious…

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

— 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

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

— John Dewey

Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself…

— John Dewey

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in…

— John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

— John Dewey

In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own…

— 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

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and…

— John Dewey

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

— John Dewey

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

— 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

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

— John Dewey