The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.
John DeweyCease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
John DeweyWhat the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.
John DeweyTime with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.
John Dewey