The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — 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
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits… — 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
All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we… — 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
Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — 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
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if… — 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
“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
