Life 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

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

— 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

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

— John Dewey

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even…

— 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

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to…

— 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

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems…

— 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

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith…

— John Dewey

“The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables…

— 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

The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values…

— John Dewey

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

“As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or contracts. He does not find himself…

— John Dewey

We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the…

— John Dewey

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position…

— John Dewey

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

— 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

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

— John Dewey

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

— John Dewey

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a…

— John Dewey

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to…

— John Dewey

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as…

— John Dewey

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

— John Dewey

Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.

— John Dewey