Dewey, John

"The roots of genuine democracy run deep in our nation's past."

"Science is a method of inquiry, not a body of knowledge."

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."

"The most important ingredient in learning is the desire to learn."

"Time is the medium in which all existence takes place."

"A human being is not finished until he is dead."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

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

"The child has instinct, the adult has understanding."

"We make our schools what they are by what we do in them and what we expect of them."

"Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go."

"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the family."

"Intellectual growth should commence the moment life begins and cease only when life ends."

"The purpose of education is not to fill the mind with facts, but to train the mind to think."

"We are not concerned with the organism's internal machinery except as it relates to its interaction with the world."

"A teacher is not just someone who teaches, but someone who transforms."

"To the being qualified by study and thought, a new world opens daily."

"Continuity is the characteristic of things that are truly experienced."

"The liberation of man from social and economic restrictions is the great task of our age."

"Facts are not atoms, they are themselves products of classification."

"A truly effective thinker cares nothing for the credit of the thought; he cares infinitely for the truth of it."

"The pathway of progress lies through the school."

"Every experience is interesting if you pay proper attention to it."

"The most important question is: what does your particular community need?"

"Creation is not finished until the individual has worked it out in his own thinking."

"Life is not a journey toward a predetermined end, but a process of growth."

"Without some form of continuity, there is only the occurrence of discrete, unrelated experiences."

"The great tradition of art reflects the accumulated experience of mankind."

"To understand is to perceive patterns of relationship and connection."

"The fundamental point in the educational process is not the subject matter, but the child."