Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
JOHN DEWEYWe do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEYNothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEYReflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
JOHN DEWEYFailure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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 DEWEYA problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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 DEWEYIn a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEYThe good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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 DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY