Democracy Quotes by John Dewey

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

— John Dewey

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

— John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— John Dewey

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it…

— John Dewey

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and…

— John Dewey

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is…

— John Dewey

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of…

— John Dewey

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects…

— John Dewey

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is…

— John Dewey

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where…

— John Dewey

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to…

— John Dewey

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith…

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

— John Dewey

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey