Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects… — 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
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — 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
