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Democratic Quotes by John Dewey

14 Democratic 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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When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and…

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Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can…

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

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

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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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A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create…

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Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,…

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

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

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The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the…

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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies…

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

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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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