Quotes by : John Dewey

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

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a....

Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth....

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings…....

A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse....

To me faith means not worrying.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

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