When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — 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
Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of… — 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
