Interest Quotes by John Dewey

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task…

— John Dewey

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can…

— John Dewey

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships…

— John Dewey

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of…

— John Dewey

What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with…

— John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to…

— John Dewey

Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there…

— John Dewey

That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given…

— John Dewey

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can…

— John Dewey

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot…

— 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

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

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey