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Conscious Quotes by John Dewey

12 Conscious quotes by John Dewey

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness…

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That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious…

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We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the…

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In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things…

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When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

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“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon…

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When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need…

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Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent…

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Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule,…

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When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious…

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What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education…

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We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to…

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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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