John Dewey Problem Quotations

We only think when we are confronted with a problem

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

a problem well put is half solved.