“ As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. John Dewey
“ 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. John Dewey
“ 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… John Dewey
“ 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… John Dewey
“ Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey
“ 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. John Dewey
“ The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey