John Dewey How We Think Quotes

#1. Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

Rafael Cruz

#2. Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: The

Dale Carnegie

#3. John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

Alfie Kohn

#4. I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

#6. John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

Jack Canfield