A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is… — 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
