22 Quotes By John Dewey


Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
John Dewey on education

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey on education

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey on education

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey on experience

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey on experience

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey on failure

To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey on faith

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

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey on happiness

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey on happiness

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey on history

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey on home

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey on imagination

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
John Dewey on life

No man's credit is as good as his money.
John Dewey on money

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey on nature

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey on science

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey on work

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey on work

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John Dewey on change