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Has beens Quotes by John Dewey

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Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows…

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It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an…

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It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least…

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Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences…

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Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of…

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Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions…

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In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things…

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“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon…

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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…

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Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some…

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The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good.…

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Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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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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