John Dewey

To me faith means not worrying.

— John Dewey

Hunger not to have, but to be

— John Dewey

Balance is balancing.

— John Dewey

Consensus demands communication.

— John Dewey

Mind is a verb not a noun.

— John Dewey

“wonder is the mother of all science.”

— John Dewey

No man's credit is as good as his money.

— John Dewey

Instruction is important.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

— John Dewey

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

— John Dewey

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

— John Dewey

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

— John Dewey

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

— John Dewey

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

— John Dewey

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

— 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

“never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.”

— John Dewey

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

— John Dewey

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

— John Dewey

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

— John Dewey

“Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with…

— John Dewey

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

— John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which…

— John Dewey

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether…

— John Dewey

There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma…

— 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

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

— John Dewey

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated…

— John Dewey

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so…

— John Dewey

Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single…

— John Dewey

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and…

— John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in…

— John Dewey

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter.…

— John Dewey

Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of…

— John Dewey

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of…

— John Dewey

“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action,…

— John Dewey

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of…

— John Dewey

“Preparation" is a treacherous idea. In a certain sense every experience should do something to prepare a person for later experiences of…

— John Dewey