Dewey, John

"Democracy begins in conversation."

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

"The good person is a professional at some line of work, some kind of practice."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it."

"A problem well put is half solved."

"Life is not only to be lived but to be understood."

"Education is the most perfect and powerful avenue to freedom."

"The child is naturally a lover of truth. Early education should foster this natural inclination."

"We only think when we are confronted with problems."

"Every experience is a moving force. Its value can be assessed only on the ground of what it moves toward and into."

"Science is a pursuit of something true about the world. It is not a special privilege of scientists but a human activity."

"In a world of change, the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses."

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

"A teacher should impart wisdom, not knowledge."

"The most powerful force in the universe is the human mind."

"Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists."

"I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much when his proposals turn out to be wrong as when they turn out to be right."

"Perhaps the greatest human achievement is the ability to imagine how things could be better and then work to make them that way."

"The school is a miniature community and a model of the larger community."

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife."

"The most important thing is that the child learns to think for himself."

"There is no greater challenge than to establish a truly just society."

"The quality of a person's thinking is often in direct proportion to the quality of the questions they ask."

"We live not in a static but in a dynamic universe."

"The desire to create is one of the deepest human impulses."

"What we have to do is to make the young understand that they too are responsible for the future."

"Language is the most perfect tool of human communication."