All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey workopportunityhappiness Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations. John Dewey independentselfpeople It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment. John Dewey officeopportunityschool Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated John Dewey dogmasurrenderphilosophy Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication. John Dewey communicationmeancountry The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. John Dewey phrasesselfthinking By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. John Dewey robustagencyaliens Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists. John Dewey art-iscommunicationart In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge John Dewey racemeanschool The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education. John Dewey governmentsuccessfuleducation There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something. John Dewey differencesworld Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey successmotivationalinspirational Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future. John Dewey intelligentmeanthinking Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey creativitychangescience The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey choices-madespiritualdiscovery Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. John Dewey individualityexpressionart The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning. John Dewey interactionskillskeys Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter. John Dewey teachingmindteacher I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God. John Dewey kingdomsteacherbelieve 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 kindsocialmind
