The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
John DeweyThe bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
John DeweyIntellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
John DeweyThat education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.
John Dewey