Individual Quotes by John Dewey

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

— John Dewey

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it…

— John Dewey

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into…

— John Dewey

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each…

— John Dewey

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it…

— John Dewey

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with…

— John Dewey

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is…

— John Dewey

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of…

— John Dewey

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own…

— John Dewey

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which…

— John Dewey

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a…

— John Dewey

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

— John Dewey

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen…

— John Dewey

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of…

— John Dewey

Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,…

— John Dewey

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity…

— John Dewey

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and…

— John Dewey

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.…

— John Dewey

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better…

— John Dewey

While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or…

— John Dewey

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of…

— John Dewey

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment…

— John Dewey