John Dewey was an influential American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer known for his contributions to pragmatism and progressive education. He believed that education should be focused on the needs and interests of the individual, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and democratic citizenship.

John Dewey Quotes

01. “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

02. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

03. “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey

04. “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
― John Dewey

05. “A problem well put is half solved.”
― John Dewey

06. “We only think when confronted with a problem.”
― John Dewey

07. “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
― John Dewey

08. “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”
― John Dewey

09. “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
― John Dewey

10. “Hunger not to have, but to be”
― John Dewey

11. “Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
― John Dewey

12. “There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”
― John Dewey

13. “Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
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14. “Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”
― John Dewey

15. “The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
― John Dewey