Thinking Quotes by John Dewey · Page 2

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is…

— John Dewey

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity…

— John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

— John Dewey

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

— 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 is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and…

— 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

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our…

— 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

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if…

— John Dewey

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious…

— John Dewey

What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education…

— John Dewey

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as…

— John Dewey