John Dewey Quotes

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Education is freedom.

Freedom can occur only through education.

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?'

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

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.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.