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John Dewey Quotes | Quotes said by John Dewey

  • John Dewey Quote #1

    . . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be marked by practices that are shameful in their cruelty and lustfulness, and by beliefs that are degraded and intellectually incredible? What else than what we can find could be expected, in the case of people having little knowledge and no secure method of knowing; with primitive institutions, and with so little control of natural forces that they lived in a constant state of fear?


  • John Dewey Quote #2

    a problem well put is half solved.

  • John Dewey Quote #3

    Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

  • John Dewey Quote #4

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

  • John Dewey Quote #5

    As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

  • John Dewey Quote #6

    Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

  • John Dewey Quote #7

    Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  • John Dewey Quote #8

    Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

  • John Dewey Quote #9

    Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.

  • John Dewey Quote #10

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

  • John Dewey Quote #11

    Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

  • John Dewey Quote #12

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

  • John Dewey Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

  • John Dewey Quote #15

    Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

  • John Dewey Quote #16

    I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.

    [Letter to Max Otto]

  • John Dewey Quote #17

    Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding things and then recovers unison with it—either through effort or by some happy chance. And, in a growing life, the recovery is never mere return to a prior state, for it is enriched by the state of disparity and resistance through which it has successfully passed. If the gap between organism and environment is too wide, the creature dies. If its activity is not enhanced by the temporary alienation, it merely subsists. Life grows when a temporary falling out is a transition to a more extensive balance of the energies of the organism with those of the conditions under which it lives.

  • John Dewey Quote #18

    Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

  • John Dewey Quote #19

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

  • John Dewey Quote #20

    No man's credit is as good as his money.

  • John Dewey Quote #21

    Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

  • John Dewey Quote #22

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

  • John Dewey Quote #23

    Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

  • John Dewey Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

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

  • John Dewey Quote #26

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

  • John Dewey Quote #27

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

  • John Dewey Quote #28

    The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

  • John Dewey Quote #29

    There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  • John Dewey Quote #30

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

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