John Dewey Quotes on Education (8 Quotes)

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

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

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The very problem of mind and body suggests division I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of intellectuals from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.