The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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
It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their… — 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
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning? — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation 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
