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Interest Quotes by John Dewey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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