While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of… — 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
