“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right… — John Dewey Copy Share
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens… — John Dewey Copy Share
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come… — John Dewey Copy Share
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share
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… — John Dewey Copy Share
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse… — John Dewey Copy Share
“When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and… — John Dewey Copy Share
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more… — John Dewey Copy Share
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. — John Dewey Copy Share
