Skip to content

Kingdom of god Quotes by John Dewey

2 Kingdom of god quotes by John Dewey

All Kingdom of god quotes John Dewey’s page

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

Image

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God…

Image

Other authors on Kingdom of god

More by John Dewey

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

Image

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right and behalf… These traits stand in themselves on precisely the same level as colours, sounds, qualities of contact, taste and smell. Any criterion that finds the latter to be ultimate and "hard" data will, impartially applied,…

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

Image

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

Image

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

Image

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Image

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

Image

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

Image

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

Image

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Image

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 marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social…

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples…