The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this… — 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
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as… — 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
