John Dewey

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

a problem well put is half solved.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.