Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from John Dewey

John Dewey US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, & psychologist (1859 - 1952)


John Dewey -
- We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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

John Dewey -
- Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey -
- Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

John Dewey -
- It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

John Dewey -
- There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey -
- Education is life itself.

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- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey -
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.