Method Quotes by John Dewey

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

— John Dewey

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— 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

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

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute…

— John Dewey

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where…

— John Dewey

Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single…

— John Dewey

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated…

— John Dewey

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

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from…

— John Dewey

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each…

— John Dewey

“The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the…

— John Dewey

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,…

— John Dewey

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with…

— John Dewey

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and…

— 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

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to…

— John Dewey

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can…

— John Dewey

That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given…

— 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

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering…

— John Dewey

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,…

— John Dewey

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and…

— John Dewey

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use…

— John Dewey

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity…

— John Dewey