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
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
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma… — 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
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
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
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work… — 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
