Top 15 John Dewey Quotes

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

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

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.

A problem well put is half solved.

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

We only think when confronted with a problem.

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

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

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

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

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