Dewey, John

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

"The capacity to think clearly and deeply is more important than the information we possess."

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

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The school is the most important means of bringing about the improvement which society needs."

"We only think when we are confronted with a problem."

"To find oneself, think for oneself."

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking."

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to invention and makes new discoveries."

"The future is open before us; it is not determined. It is an open field."

"There is no separation between means and ends."

"The most valuable knowledge is knowledge of how to keep on learning."

"Democracy is a way of personal life and not merely a form of government."

"Learning from experience is a risky business; yet it is the only reliable method."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"Growth is a sign of life and a consequence of life; the quality of life is measured by the quality of experience."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much when his conjecture is wrong as when it is right."

"Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"The present generates the problems with which the future must deal."

"A person who does not hesitate to say he is right, has already said he is a fool."

"Nature is not too good to be true; it is the world of truth."

"The great tradition of public schools is thus justified."

"Change is the law of growth."

"Passion denotes a strong and undivided interest in action."

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children."

"We are always living, so to speak, upon the edge of the future, and what interests us is the ultimate result."

"The individual mind can be trained to think; it may be retrained."

"Beauty is not something that comes ready-made."