Inspirational Quotes by John Dewey — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

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

“A problem well put is half solved.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”

“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.”

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

“Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.”

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

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”