Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or contracts. He does not find himself… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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