John Dewey Quotes on Knowledge
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, the most influential figure of the second generation of pragmatist philosophy and one of the most influential American thinkers of the 20th century. This page collects quotes attributed to John Dewey on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to John Dewey:
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
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Attributed to John Dewey:
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
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Attributed to John Dewey:
“We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.”
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Attributed to John Dewey:
“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.”
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Attributed to John Dewey:
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
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Attributed to John Dewey:
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”