John Dewey Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A problem well put is half solved.

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

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

4. Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it. A Common Faith

5. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

6. Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. Reconstruction in Philosophy

7. The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

8. There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. Experience and Education