Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even… — 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
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking;… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — 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
While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium… — 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
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
“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but… — 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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