The task of education, John Dewey asserted […] is not “to teach every possible item of information [but] to cultivate deep-seated and effective habits of discriminating tested beliefs from mere assertions, guesses, and opinions.”
Authors: John Dewey, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Education | Scholarship
Imagination is a vantage point of the future from which we can consider that which is lacking in the present.
Author: John Dewey | Subjects: Insight, Thought | Inquiry
It is both astonishing and depressing that so much of the energy of mankind has gone into fighting for…the truth of creeds, religious, moral and political, as distinct from what has gone into effort to try creeds by putting them to the test of acting upon them.
Author: John Dewey | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior