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Capacity Quotes by John Dewey

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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…

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The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

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Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less…

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It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions…

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Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own…

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

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Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of…

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Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left…

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The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

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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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