One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
John DeweyTo the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
John DeweySome experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
John DeweyMen have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.
John Dewey