John Dewey Quotes

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil.

Almost all education has a political motive.

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.