As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an athei...
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis...
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
To me faith means not worrying.
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belief in the Common Man is a familiar article in the democratic creed. That belief is without basis and...