Dewey, John

"The ability to think about things is what sets human beings apart."

"Genuine learning is active rather than passive."

"A teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals, but in the formation of the proper social life."

"Knowledge which is separated from experience is knowledge which is dead."

"The deepest desire of the human being is to feel alive."

"Science denotes a body of facts and principles which have been organized into a systematic form."

"We do not learn by experience, we learn by reflecting on experience."

"The good society is not one that is static, but one that is capable of change."

"It is to the great writers of science that we look for the exposition of the method of science."

"True education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations."

"An educational system is a mechanism for the perpetuation of society."

"Peace is the normal, war the exceptional state."

"The individual becomes capable of acting on its environment through the development of understanding."

"The most insidious error that we fall into is the notion that intelligence is a ready-made quality."

"Every man has at some period been capable of rising to his best."

"The attitude of suspicion toward the past is the necessary counterpart of faith in the future."

"To live is to face new situations."

"A teacher's awareness of knowledge that is not written or explicitly taught is crucial."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence becomes an act of rebellion."

"We live in a social world where cooperation is necessary."

"The experience of life itself, appropriately understood, is the chief educational resource."

"Man is a creature who builds barriers against the unseen."

"The scientific mind must be constantly engaged in the work of creation."

"Thinking is the attempt to discover connections between what we already know."

"The true wealth of a person is measured by the depth of their character."

"We learn by doing."

"The test of a well-educated person is that they have become an instrument of valuable service to society."

"Nothing can be intellectually said to be permanent and sacred."

"The world in due time adjusts itself to an idea whose time has come."

"Every genuine experience evokes thinking."