John Dewey

"The young cannot have perspective with regard to any culture in which they live."

"The mind, once expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the fate of all whom we touch."

"The present is a moving boundary between an absent past and an absent future."

"No man or woman is a success in public life unless he or she has learned the lesson of obedience to legal authority."

"The truth is that we are not prepared to live unless we are prepared to die."

"In order that people be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it."

"The most profound and practical truth is that beliefs have consequences."

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

"Of all institutions, the family is the earliest and the most fundamental in its influences."

"The belief that every specific thing and happening is composed of other things and happenings is itself a specific belief."

"The hope of creating a new world order cannot rest on force alone."

"Scientific method is not just a method used in science. It is a general method of practical problem-solving."

"The true source of moral authority is the natural inclinations and capacities of human beings."

"A human being is not, but continuously is being."

"Until we make our mistakes and show ourselves willing to learn from them we do not know much."

"The future is already being shaped by education we offer and the values we embody today."

"All genuine education comes through experience."

"The one permanent institution is change."

"Only through fiction can we explore the unlimited possibilities of human behavior."

"Interest is the great motive-power in education."

"It is the nature of man to be exposed to the unexpected."

"The future is built upon the promises of education."

"Narrow individuality is incapable of creating great art."

"Patience and self-control are essential virtues of the scientist."

"The school is the institution in which the possibilities of education may be realized."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

"Democracy cannot flourish unless the intelligence of the masses is fully developed."

"The deepest and fullest conviction is that life itself is the raw material which gets transformed in human living into forms of beauty and power."

"Without social motivation, there is no science."