John Dewey

1859–1952 · Philosopher and educator

John Dewey was a philosopher and educator. My Pedagogic Creed sets out his view of education as participation in social life.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to John Dewey

“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife”

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“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination”

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“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness”

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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”

Disputed

Not actually John Dewey

Often misattributed to John Dewey

Famous lines widely pinned on John Dewey that we’ve traced to someone else.

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic”

actually James Hinton

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