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"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."

John Dewey on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by John Dewey

• "Education is not preparation for life education is life itself."

• "Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."

• "The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."

• "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."

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