Knowledge Quotes by John Dewey

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their…

— John Dewey

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

— John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in…

— John Dewey

“As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or contracts. He does not find himself…

— John Dewey

“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could…

— John Dewey

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

— John Dewey

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…

— John Dewey

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly…

— John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…

— 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

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work…

— John Dewey

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

— John Dewey

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

— John Dewey