Ends Quotes by John Dewey

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

— John Dewey

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

— John Dewey

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

— John Dewey

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a…

— John Dewey

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is…

— John Dewey

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent…

— John Dewey

As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing…

— John Dewey

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes…

— John Dewey

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss…

— John Dewey

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing…

— John Dewey

It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their…

— John Dewey

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…

— John Dewey

If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the…

— John Dewey

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of…

— John Dewey

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the…

— John Dewey

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity…

— John Dewey

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view…

— John Dewey

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.…

— John Dewey

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and…

— John Dewey