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Fundamentals Quotes by John Dewey

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The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which…

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Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a…

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Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

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Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,…

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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

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The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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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…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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