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Reflection Quotes by John Dewey

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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like…

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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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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for…

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An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute…

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In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things…

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“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to…

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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…

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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.