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John Dewey Quotes


An American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist philosophies of schooling during the first half of the 20th century in the USA.

Here are some famous quotes by John John Dewey. 

To me faith means not worrying.

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We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

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To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

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Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

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Reason is experimental intelligence conceived after the pattern of science and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization.