Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself… — 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against… — 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
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms… — 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
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons". — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — 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
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,… — 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
“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
