Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
John DeweyThe intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
John DeweyThere is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
John DeweyThe real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.
John Dewey