Community Quotes by John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

— John Dewey

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…

— John Dewey

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…

— John Dewey

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…

— John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…

— John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

— John Dewey

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

— 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

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is…

— John Dewey

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it…

— John Dewey

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable…

— John Dewey

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

— John Dewey

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

— John Dewey

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment…

— John Dewey

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and…

— John Dewey

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.

— 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

When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit…

— John Dewey

In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own…

— 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

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

— John Dewey