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Imagination Quotes by John Dewey

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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand…

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter…

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The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are…

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An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute…

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The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of…

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It…

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The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any…

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Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,…

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...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from…

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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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