Activity Quotes by John Dewey

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

— John Dewey

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss…

— John Dewey

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon…

— John Dewey

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to…

— John Dewey

All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies…

— John Dewey

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

— John Dewey

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and…

— John Dewey

If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the…

— John Dewey

To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling…

— John Dewey

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which…

— John Dewey

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are…

— John Dewey

The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they…

— John Dewey

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.…

— John Dewey

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult…

— John Dewey

The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an…

— John Dewey

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there…

— John Dewey

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity…

— John Dewey

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and…

— John Dewey

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and…

— John Dewey

...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from…

— John Dewey

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium…

— John Dewey

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of…

— John Dewey

The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any…

— John Dewey

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better…

— John Dewey