"We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which

"In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions." John Dewey

"Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself." John Dewey

"If a plague carried off the members of a society all at once, it is obvious that the group would be permanently done for. Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic

"I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground." John Dewey

"Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself" John Dewey

"Since language represents the physical conditions that have been subjected to the maximum transformation in the interests of social life—physical things which have lost their original quality in

"Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine

"Hunger not to have, but to be" John Dewey

"I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground." John Dewey

"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience." John Dewey

"Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."

"Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. " John Dewey

"The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end." John Dewey

"We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in

"To me faith means not worrying" John Dewey

"There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves

"The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic." John Dewey

"The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end." John Dewey

"The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end." John Dewey