Dewey, John

"What is the sign of a successful school? It is a place where three teachers are made each year."

"The good man and the good citizen are one and the same."

"We live from within outwardly."

"The only adequate way to think about the future is to regard it as an object of constructive activity."

"A person is born not with a capacity to remember, but with a capacity to do."

"The community which renounces the impulse to share literature, philosophy, and science is well on the way to renouncing culture itself."

"To exist is to be in relation."

"The keynote of American democracy is not the superhuman capacity of the average citizen for self-government."

"Successful education is a reconstruction of experience."

"The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself."

"Truth is a quality of thought and belief rather than of facts."

"We ought to teach men how to learn, rather than to teach them all they are ever likely to need."

"Thinking is the act and power of using concepts to solve the problems that arise in experience."

"The idea of a democracy of economic relations is a most startling and strange idea."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every emotion."

"Courage is the resolution to face a problem, not to run from it."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"Art is the complement to science. Where science states how things are, art expresses how they feel."

"The understanding of concepts is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge."

"In every moment there is a new world, if we but have vision to see it."

"A person without imagination is like an orchid without color."

"The business of philosophy is to restore life and experience."

"Art is cognition in its most direct form."

"The fundamental factors in the growth of self are recognition and response."

"Freedom means more than the absence of external constraint; it means self-control."

"We cannot tell where inspiration ends and imitation begins."

"The true test of civilisation is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Life is growth. Stagnation is death."

"There is an intimate connection between the process of actual experience and education."

"The process of living is learning."