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Association Quotes by John Dewey

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Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

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Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their…

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While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association…

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Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms…

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One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious…

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In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

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That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the…

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Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned…

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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as…

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A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than…

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As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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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…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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