The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. – 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
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. – John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. – John Dewey
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert