Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.John Dewey
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.John Dewey
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.John Dewey
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.John Dewey
