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Different Quotes by John Dewey

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One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious…

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The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through…

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Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of…

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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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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation…

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Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned…

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In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own…

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Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken…

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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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