A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things… — 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
Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the… — 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
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than… — 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
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity,… — 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
