John Dewey Quotes

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Education is the complete answer to all these other social issues.

Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Public policies in our democracy are eventually a reflection of public opinion," so public opinion must be reshaped if we are to avoid disaster.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

Social mobility is much less today in America than it historically has been, and it is almost as low as England, the lowest of the industrial countries of Europe.

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of ants.

The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

I believe that we have a duty to look frankly at the social conditions around us and to work to do what we can to address the specific needs which we find.

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

There are lots of great educationalists out there who really care about social mobility.

As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.

I know it's very comfortable to sit at home and stay with your family, kids and friends and not worry about anything. But with the platform we have we should be the people that scream at the social issues and put them out there so as a society we can move forward.