John Dewey

"The child's life is not an island unto himself, but a little peninsula jutting into a universe of experience."

"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."

"The love of working with one's hands and mind is the vital core of all education."

"The highest and most difficult attainment is to form true and genuine self."

"Society's future will be shaped by those who believe in the power of their dreams."

"The test of truly being at home anywhere is the idea of being able to leave it."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"Liberty is that secure adjustment of changing elements which have a maximum of opportunity to express themselves."

"The great thing is that by the power of growth we can transform ourselves at any time."

"The better understanding we have of the world around us, the better we can act in it."

"Genuine happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."

"The ability and inclination to learn is the ultimate form of power."

"What is wanted is not a mass of undigested information, but an understanding of the principles involved."

"The most notable distinction between animals and men is found in the logical operations performed by men."

"Art wakes us up to the depths of our being."

"Democracy begins in conversation."

"Experience is your best teacher."

"The failure to read deeply enough is the failure to think clearly enough."

"I believe that nature, both within and without, has resources which education can tap and train."

"Every genuine experience has an aesthetic quality."

"A truly human world is constituted by communications between human beings."

"The facts of life are the data of philosophy."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"Patience is the virtue by which we receive what we cannot yet understand."

"The things we have fought hard for, we esteem; the things that come too easily we esteem lightly."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

"The moral and intellectual structure of societies becomes apparent in its schools."

"Without the grace of kindness, wisdom itself becomes cold and unkind."

"The healthy attitude of science is a constant willingness to abandon a given hypothesis, a given law, even the most fundamental when the evidence is against it."

"The capacity for recollection is the capacity for growth."