John Dewey

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

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

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

John Dewey

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

John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life.

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

John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

John Dewey

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

John Dewey