Conditions Quotes by John Dewey

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

— John Dewey

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to…

— John Dewey

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the…

— 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

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

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

— 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

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and…

— John Dewey

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he…

— John Dewey

It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…

— 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

No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is…

— John Dewey

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That…

— John Dewey