John Dewey Quotes

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

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

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Education must establish the moral unity of mankind.

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.