John Dewey

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

John Dewey

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

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

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

John Dewey

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

John Dewey

Consensus demands communication.

John Dewey

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

John Dewey

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

John Dewey

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

John Dewey

I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.

John Dewey