Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYThe two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEYInsecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEYThinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
JOHN DEWEYThere’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEYIn a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYIn object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
JOHN DEWEYWe do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEYI believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEYA problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYI believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
JOHN DEWEYThe most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY