John Dewey

“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

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

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

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.

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.