All John Dewey Quotes
- Hunger not to have, but to be Funny
- Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not… Access
- We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning… Always Live
- For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that… Acts
- Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… Conflict
- There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… Abstract
- There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something. All
- Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists. Art
- The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in… Activity
- Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… Account
- Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly… All
- The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. Beyond
- Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. Bloom
- a problem well put is half solved. Half
- As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help… Act
- The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic. Abolish
- Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. Demand
- We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. Experience
- The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. Attitude
- If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. Powerful