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Important 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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While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association…

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Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less…

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Instruction is important.

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Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important…

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Always make the other person feel important.

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The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position…

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The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering…

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Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,…

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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel 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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