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Disposition Quotes by John Dewey

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A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter…

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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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The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into…

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[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen…

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In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

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Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who…

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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…

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The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position…

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Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,…

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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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