Environment Quotes by John Dewey

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but…

— John Dewey

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into…

— John Dewey

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

— John Dewey

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even…

— John Dewey

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon…

— John Dewey

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or…

— John Dewey

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with…

— John Dewey

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

— John Dewey

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it…

— John Dewey

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether…

— John Dewey

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of…

— John Dewey

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium…

— John Dewey

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…

— John Dewey

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For…

— John Dewey

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face…

— John Dewey

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which…

— John Dewey

One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious…

— John Dewey

In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own…

— John Dewey