John Dewey Quotes

John Dewey (Philosopher and educator, 1859 – 1952). Below are 5 quotes by John Dewey from QuotePlace, each as a text quote card.

Philosopher and educator · 1859 – 1952

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer, a central figure in pragmatism. His ideas on learning by doing profoundly shaped progressive education.

Quotes by John Dewey

1.Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
2.Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
3.Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
4.Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
5.The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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