Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.
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.
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
Education is life itself.
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.