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Intellectual Quotes by John Dewey

8 Intellectual quotes by John Dewey

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No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is…

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When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional…

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Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms…

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The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this…

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Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals…

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An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we…

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he…

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When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

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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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