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Connections Quotes by John Dewey

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While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association…

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To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy…

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Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of…

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Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

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The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends…

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When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least…

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To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

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In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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“When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and…

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more…

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.