The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this… — 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
