John Dewey

"We measure our civilization by its treatment of the weakest members."

"The mind of the learner should be the starting point of all education."

"There is no greater tragedy than potential left unrealized."

"Imagination is the free play of the mind."

"The future is open to human shaping."

"In the end, we will not be remembered for our wealth but for our contribution to humanity."

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

"The capacity to think of things as possibly being otherwise than as they are, is the capacity from which all change springs."

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

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

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time without losing the ability to function."

"Growth itself is the only moral purpose."

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

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

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to appraise and to reappraise, to weigh and to reconsider."

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

"The school is the primary and most effective instrument of social progress and reform."

"Thinking is the method of an educated person."

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

"Art is the means of celebrating the good in life."

"The good man is the man who, no matter how he has slipped up through human weakness, retains his respect for the human values."

"A problem well put is half solved."

"Genuine freedom is the only true basis for morality."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

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

"The present determines the future because we are always living at the moment of transition."

"Education is a social process, and the school is primarily a social institution."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much when his experiments fail as when they succeed."

"Imagination is the chief instrument of the good life."

"The true creative genius depends for its fertility on such an instability of equilibrium."