Dewey, John

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens."

"Truth is not fixed, but emerges through dialogue and investigation."

"The foundation of a healthy society is healthy education."

"To understand others, we must first understand ourselves."

"Change is the only constant; we must learn to navigate it with wisdom."

"The power of education lies in its ability to transform lives and societies."

"We are shaped by our choices more than our circumstances."

"The deepest learning comes from doing, reflecting, and doing again."

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

"The capacity to grow depends quite upon the ability to recognize present achievement and to use it as a stepping stone to a higher achievement."

"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."

"The school is the one form of social institution which is strictly devoted to growth."

"Conflicts and tensions have always been sources of growth and creativity in human history."

"The child has their own world of imagination and we adults are always trying to invade it."

"Nature itself is not fixed or finished. It is still in the making."

"Art is the ability to make life more interesting than art."

"Science is a way of controlling and organizing experience."

"The future of democracy is not an outgrowing of democracy but the necessity of going further in the democratic direction."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience."

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking."

"Failure is instructive for the one who undertakes serious inquiry."

"A problem well put is half solved."

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

"Growth itself is the only moral purpose."

"The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning."

"Human nature is not originally or intrinsically bad."

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

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

"Ethical principles are rules for human beings to live together in communities."