Democracy and Education Quotes

“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:happiness

“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:knowledgeeducation

“The moment we recognize that the self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action, the whole situation clears up.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:selfactionchoice

“Nature offers simply the germs which education is to develop and perfect.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:natureeducation

“Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:world

“For it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education—or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:educationlearning

“It would be impossible to find a deeper sense of the function of education in discovering and developing personal capacities, and training them so that they would connect with the activities of others.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:education

“One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:educationdemocracy

“The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:education

“The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:educationsocietymeaning