I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons". — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life. — 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
