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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.
It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.
You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.