John Dewey

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make of it the full meaning of the present life.

John Dewey

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

John Dewey

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

John Dewey

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers for dealing with the problems of men.

John Dewey

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

John Dewey

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth.

John Dewey

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

John Dewey

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

John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

John Dewey

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

John Dewey