The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith… — 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
