Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on… — 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
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which… — 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
Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
