John Dewey Aim Quotations

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.