Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or… — 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… — 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… — 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — 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
The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension… — 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
“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
