John Dewey Quotes

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

Government has ever been careful to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.

I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.

Our kids are our biggest assets. They are the future of our country. If we provide them good education, no one can stop India from becoming a developed country.

Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

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