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Quality Quotes by John Dewey

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Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

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Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

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That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the…

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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative…

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Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon…

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Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a…

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It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and…

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It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem…

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As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the…

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The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the…

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Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in…

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

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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.