John Dewey Quotes

Education is soul crafting.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

The main hope of a state lies in the proper education of its youth.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.