19 quotes
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
- John Dewey
Happiness
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."
- John Dewey
Personal Growth
"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."
- John Dewey
Courage
"The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning."
- John Dewey
Learning
"We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience."
- John Dewey
Learning
"To me faith means not worrying."
- John Dewey
Faith
"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience."
- John Dewey
Connection to Earth
"Life is a great adventure, or it is nothing."
- John Dewey
Aspirations
"Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality."
- John Dewey
Empowerment
"If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow."
- John Dewey
Change
"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."
- John Dewey
Reflection
"We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience."
- John Dewey
Reflection
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
Education
""Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.""
- John Dewey
Education
"Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier."
- John Dewey
Education
"Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
Education
"Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative."
- John Dewey
Education
"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."
- John Dewey
Wisdom
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
- John Dewey
New Beginnings