Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — 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
Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — 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
Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it… — 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
