John Dewey Quotes

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.