John Dewey

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife."

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

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort over many years."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"In the degree to which the teacher succeeds in getting inside the pupils' heads, he succeeds in awakening their intellectual interest."

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

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

"Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists."

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

"The school is the last and the best answer to the social question."

"Growth itself is the only moral purpose."

"A person only truly understands a thing when he understands its opposite."

"The present is the field in which seeds are sown for the future."

"Conflicts are the gadflies of thought. They rouse us from complacency."

"Education without experiment and investigation is dogma."

"The young are hungry for experience. The old are satiated with it."

"Immorality is the failure to fully develop the capacities with which you were endowed."

"The workable truth is what works best in the way of leading us to beneficial interactions with the world."

"Mind is a verb, not a noun."

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

"The present moment is constituted by the overlapping and tension of habit and impulse."

"Whatever philosophy may be, it must be something that takes what we call goods and bads seriously."

"The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness."

"There is no greater ignorance than to reject something you know nothing about."

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"Change is as inevitable as growth."

"The individual who is to be educated is a social individual, and society is made of individuals."

"Thinking is the method of intelligent learning."