John Dewey

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

"The capacity to be bored is a prerequisite for growth."

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

"The child has a natural desire to give help and to share responsibility."

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

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

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to appraisal and re-appraisal of our assumptions."

"The best way to help a child develop good habits is to make them habitual."

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."

"Experience and education cannot be directly transferred from one person to another."

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

"There is no greater aesthetic disillusionment than to be forced to admire a poem or picture that bores you."

"Democracy begins in conversation."

"The world in due time reacts so as to change us, as well as to supply us with material on which to act."

"Curiosity is the direct index of the vitality of thought."

"The only freedom that is of enduring importance is freedom of intelligence."

"Thinking is the method of intelligent learning."

"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on."

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

"A philosophy which does not grow out of actual conditions of life is sterile."

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

"Genuine liberty is a product of culture."

"Intelligence is not something possessed once and for all. It is in constant process of forming."

"Skepticism means stopping to think."

"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."

"The most notable distinction between animals and men is the establishment of a true science by men."

"The basis of democracy is faith in the capacities of human nature."

"Art celebrates with peculiar intensity the moments in which the past reinforces the present."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much when his plans go awry as when they succeed."

"Every genuine experience has a quality all its own of a different kind."