John Dewey Quotes

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

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

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

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.

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

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

I try to learn with experience. This is my process of learning, so I try my 100 per cent.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.