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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The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

Grace Potter

Are we happy that 99% of all new income is going to the top 1%? Are we happy that one family in this country owns more than the bottom 130 million people?

Bernie Sanders (as Senator of Vermont) - Late Night with Seth Meyers, 2. Juni 2015

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Vermont - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

Roman Herzog

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

John Grogan

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Education is that human process of feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had.

Richard Rodriguez

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

Paul de Lagarde

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Albert Einstein

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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