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Institutions Quotes by John Dewey

10 Institutions quotes by John Dewey

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“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon…

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Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself…

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Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions…

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Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken…

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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…

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Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows…

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

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A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment…

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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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The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

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

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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.