3 December 2020 John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
3 December 2020 John Dewey The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
3 December 2020 John Dewey The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.