To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEYTo find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYThinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEYGive the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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 DEWEYI feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYHunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEYHolding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYThe ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
JOHN DEWEYAnyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY