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Information Quotes by John Dewey

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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…

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Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in…

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It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions…

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Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of…

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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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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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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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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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