John Dewey Quotes
John Dewey Quotes
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
2849 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.
3838 There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
1135 Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
3691 The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
1268 Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
1168 a problem well put is half solved.
4369 To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
4689 For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
1513 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.
1047 As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
4485 Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
4328 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.
3863 Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
2777 Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
3123 Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.
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