John Dewey Quotes

Most popular John Dewey Quotes

We learn to do by doing. - John Dewey quote.
We learn to do by doing.
— John Dewey
To me faith means not worrying. - John Dewey quote.
To me faith means not worrying.
— John Dewey Philosophy After Darwin

faith

No man's credit is as good as his money. - John Dewey quote.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
— John Dewey

credit

Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists. - John Dewey quote.
Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists.
— John Dewey Art as Experience

communication

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important. - John Dewey quote.
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
— John Dewey

human nature

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey quote.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
— John Dewey

education

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey quote.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
— John Dewey The Quest for Certainty

science imagination

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. - John Dewey quote.
It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.
— John Dewey Logic: Theory of Inquiry

problems

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. - John Dewey quote.
If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.
— John Dewey

for teachers education

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. - John Dewey quote.
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
— John Dewey Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

communication

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. - John Dewey quote.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
— John Dewey Art as Experience

art

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. - John Dewey quote.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
— John Dewey Democracy and Education

action the self

The chief intellectual characteristic of the present age is its despair of any constructive philosophy. - John Dewey quote.
The chief intellectual characteristic of the present age is its despair of any constructive philosophy.
— John Dewey
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. - John Dewey quote.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
— John Dewey

nature

The measure of civilization is the degree in which the method of cooperative intelligence replaces the method of brute conflict. - John Dewey quote.
The measure of civilization is the degree in which the method of cooperative intelligence replaces the method of brute conflict.
— John Dewey
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place. - John Dewey quote.
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
— John Dewey Experience and Nature

thinking

Failure is not mere failure.  It is instructive.  The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey quote.
Failure is not mere failure.  It is instructive.  The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
— John Dewey How We Think

failure

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. - John Dewey quote.
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
— John Dewey

science

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. - John Dewey quote.
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends.
— John Dewey

school