There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — 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 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
An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. — 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
