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Experiments Quotes by John Dewey

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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication… Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…

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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter…

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As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to…

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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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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…

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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…

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

“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.