John Dewey Quotes

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

We teach what we need to learn.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.