John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.