The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
