[Quotations] Progress

Quotations: Progress

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.

John Dewey

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress....

Thomas A. Edison

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance....

Will Durant

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead