John Dewey Quotes

Reflection 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.

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

Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

Nothing 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.

The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.