“To me faith means not worrying”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Recommended quotes page 74
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy (1916)
Misc. Quotes
Context: It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
“Hunger not to have, but to be”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
James Hinton, Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Manuscripts of the Late James Hinton, ed. Caroline Haddon, (2nd ed., London: 1884), [//books.google.com/books?id=DpxRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267 p. 267].
Widely misattributed on the internet to Dewey, who actually attributes it to Hinton in Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology (New York: 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=Ws0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115 p. 115].
Misattributed
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
This is a paraphrase of an idea that Dewey expressed using other words in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916); it is widely misattributed to Dewey as a quotation.
Cf. James William Norman, A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=qrmgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 p. 140] (emphasis added): "...there has for years been a strong and growing tendency in the United States under the leadership of Dewey, and more recently of Kilpatrick, to find an educational method correlative of democracy in society with the belief that education is life itself rather than a mere preparation for life, and that practice in democratic living is the best preparation for democracy."
Misattributed
Variant: Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“We only think when confronted with a problem.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
This quote waiting for review.
“We can’t build a WE when everything is about ME.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
“No one is perfect in this imperfect world.”
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed
Congo, My Country