John Dewey

"The measure of your intelligence is your capacity for change."

"Every normal person has both capacities within himself, and that all persons have within them the possibility of developing both."

"The philosopher is the one who is willing to look at the world with wondering eyes."

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

"The test of the value of a education is the degree to which it creates a desire for further education."

"A problem well put is half solved."

"The most effective argument against an idea is another idea."

"The direction of the trend of change gives the clue to what is truly happening."

"Understanding the self is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow, what a ride!'"

"The creation of a better future is by definition not a conservative task."

"There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education."

"The present moves inevitably into an open future."

"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child is what we should want for all the children of the community."

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

"Increase of intelligence means increase of power to look ahead and shape the future."

"The world in which each of us lives is not merely the physical world of objects and forces, but a world of meanings."

"Time is always the present in which action operates."

"The measure of wisdom is the degree of freedom from fear."

"Art is the medium in which human beings record their reactions to the world."

"The office of the teacher is not to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but to aid him in developing his own power."

"Knowledge is a result of experience, not something that precedes it."

"There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract."

"The individual's only power lies in his capacity to act."

"The present is a fulcrum upon which to move the future."

"Every one of the constituents of human nature is capable of unlimited growth."

"Tolerance, mutual understanding, and good faith are not merely virtues in private life; they are essential to the functioning of a democracy."

"The purpose of education is to enable individuals to continue their education."

"The future is not something to be predicted or controlled, but to be created by our present actions."