Quotes About Progress

An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon conscious experience—we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

New inventions, new machines, new methods of transportation and intercourse are making over the whole scene of action year by year. It is an absolute impossibility to educate the child for any fixed station in life.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

But the live creature adopts its past; it can make friends with even its stupidities, using them as warnings that increase present wariness. Instead of trying to live upon whatever may have been achieved in the past, it uses past successes to inform the present. Every living experience owes its richness to what Santayana well calls "hushed reverberations.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

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

knowledge alone is not powerful even when the dots are interconnected, but humility can take you far away

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.