black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Education 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

Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science
In 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 DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEY

Beyond Education End
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
I 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 DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY

Goodness Man Moral Worth
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Place Thinking World
Give 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 DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY

Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEY

Greatness Imagination Issue Science
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Dewey Quotes