- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- 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.
- We only think when confronted with a problem.
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
- If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
- Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
10 inspirational john dewey quotes on success
