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Human beings Quotes by John Dewey

11 Human beings quotes by John Dewey

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A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use…

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Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects…

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The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on…

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Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of…

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There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of…

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The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an…

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Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned…

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No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the…

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A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than…

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Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith…

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The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even…

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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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