A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and… — 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
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It… — 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
Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition,… — 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
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