John Dewey Quotes

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Students were taught by doing.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

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

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.