John Dewey quotes - page 4

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. (John Dewey)
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey
It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well-put is half-solved.
John Dewey
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
John Dewey
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
John Dewey
No man's credit is as good as his money.
John Dewey
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
John Dewey
It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
John Dewey