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As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow. — John Dewey

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. — John Dewey

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools — John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction. — John Dewey

Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus. — Jack Canfield

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state. — John Dewey

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. — John Dewey

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. — John Dewey

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. — John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey

wonder is the mother of all science. — John Dewey

Balance is balancing. — John Dewey

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. — John Dewey

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved. — John Dewey

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal. — John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. — John Dewey

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

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. — John Dewey

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling. — John Dewey

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. — Spike Lee

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. — John Dewey

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. — John Dewey

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. — John Dewey

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic. — John Dewey

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey

No man's credit is as good as his money. — John Dewey

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process. — John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education. — John Dewey

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. — John Dewey

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning. — John Dewey

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself — John Dewey

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals. — John Dewey

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. — John Dewey

The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey, 1876 — John Palfrey

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. — John Dewey

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. — John Dewey

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others. — John Dewey

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned. — John Dewey

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. — John Dewey

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. — John Dewey

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire. — John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. — John Dewey

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. — John Dewey

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path. — John Dewey

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. — John Dewey

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey

All genuine learning comes through experience. — John Dewey

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social. — John Dewey

Hunger not to have, but to be — John Dewey

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in. — John Dewey

John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine. — Leo Tolstoy

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences. — John Dewey

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. — John Dewey Polt

We only think when we are confronted with problems. — John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. — John Dewey

We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience. — John Dewey

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. — John Dewey

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind. — John Dewey

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities — John Dewey

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests. — John Dewey

Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself. — John Dewey

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists. — John Dewey

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge. — John Dewey

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. — John Dewey

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning? — John Dewey

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself — John Dewey

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

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. — John Dewey

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. — John Dewey

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. — John Dewey

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material. — John Dewey

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. — John Dewey

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. — John Dewey

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. — John Dewey

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. — John Dewey

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known. — John Dewey

a problem well put is half solved. — John Dewey

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. — John Dewey

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. — John Dewey

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. — John Dewey

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril. — John Dewey

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. — John Dewey

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. — John Dewey

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society. — John Dewey

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. — John Dewey