Quotes by John Dewey
Tremendis Learning found 7 quote/s on its database for John Dewey.
   
1."Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
  
2."Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
  
3."I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience."
  
4."Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
  
5."The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society."
  
6."Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."
  
7."Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks, learns just as much from his failures as he does from his successes."