Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which… — 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
To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. — 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
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. — 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
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake. — 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
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — 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
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