John Dewey quotes

" Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. " # Science and Scientists

" The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. " # Action # Choice # Character

" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. " # Quotations # Education # Life and Living

" Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. " # Education # Growth # Life and Living

" The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. " # Self-improvement # Morality # Prayer

" To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. " # Opportunity # Happiness # Security

" Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. " # Goodness

" The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. " # Thoughts and Thinking # Education # Teachers and Teaching

" Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. " # Success # Failure # Learning

" We only think when we are confronted with problems. " # Challenges