May Quotes by John Dewey

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter…

— John Dewey

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

— John Dewey

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as…

— John Dewey

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

— John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

— John Dewey

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important…

— John Dewey

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith…

— John Dewey

In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity,…

— John Dewey

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even…

— John Dewey

A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and…

— John Dewey

“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

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through…

— John Dewey

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child…

— John Dewey

It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their…

— John Dewey

No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is…

— 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

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of…

— John Dewey

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add…

— John Dewey

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act…

— John Dewey

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than…

— John Dewey

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared,…

— 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

In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things…

— John Dewey

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the…

— John Dewey

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view…

— John Dewey