The best Quotes by John Dewey

The best Quotes by John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

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Education is the ability to distinguish between useful and useless knowledge.
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