John Dewey Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

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

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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

  John Dewey

  Education, Future, Learning

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Ideas

• Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

  John Dewey

  Learning, School, Mean

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

  John Dewey

  Running, Learning, School

• One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teacher, Learning

• Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Learning, Calling

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

• To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Care

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Sheba Blake Publishing

• As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

  John Dewey

  Children, Learning, Live For Today

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