Mean Quotes by John Dewey

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

— John Dewey

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

— John Dewey

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

— John Dewey

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

— John Dewey

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

— John Dewey

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether…

— John Dewey

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

— John Dewey

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

— 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

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously,…

— John Dewey

Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but…

— John Dewey

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…

— John Dewey

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

— John Dewey

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own…

— John Dewey

What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and…

— John Dewey

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a…

— John Dewey

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of…

— John Dewey

Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,…

— 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

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of…

— John Dewey

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…

— 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

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

— John Dewey

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a…

— John Dewey

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

— John Dewey

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if…

— John Dewey

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of…

— John Dewey

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

— John Dewey

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which…

— John Dewey

Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of…

— John Dewey

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and…

— John Dewey