John Dewey

Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed.

— John Dewey

Straitjacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

— John Dewey

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

— John Dewey

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

— John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

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.

— John Dewey

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

— John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

— 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