Dewey, John

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Human beings have made a certain kind of agreement that we call civilization. Breaking this agreement is not freedom; it is slavery."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparent natural curiosity of the pupils."

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief."

"The connections of things is what we would know, that is, the reason of things."

"Every normal person is interested in a large number of things. Dewey believed this natural curiosity should guide education."

"To say that thinking and feeling are related, that one implies the other, is to assert a truism."

"The individual only realizes his true significance through connection with the whole."

"A problem adequately stated is a problem half solved."

"The development of art in schools is not a frill, but a fundamental necessity."

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"The greatest danger to democracy is not from those who rule but from the apathy of the ruled."

"We are not living in static conditions, but in a world of change."

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think."

"In every genuine belief, there is an element of venture, an element of uncertainty."

"The method of intelligence is the method of experience."

"There is an intimate union between thought and action."

"The great challenge of education is to enable people to think."

"A human being is not born to solve the problems of the static world once and for all, but to solve the problems of living as they arise moment by moment."

"The purpose of education is to make the body and mind as complete and perfect as possible."

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

"The human being is a social creature, and genuine education must reflect this reality."

"I believe in the principle that the human being is naturally a lover of truth."

"Philosophy is not mainly a pursuit of abstract truth but a guide to living."

"The ultimate aim of education is to create a truly democratic society."

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought, stirs us to appraise and reappraise our assumptions."

"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."

"The business of education is not to make the individual an organ of the existing order, but to create one who will make the order serve human purposes."

"Man is not merely an individual to be molded by society, nor society merely an external force imposed upon him."