Quotes by John Dewey

“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.””

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

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

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

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.””

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.””

“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. ””

“To me faith means not worrying””