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Nature of man Quotes by John Dewey

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which…

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Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions…

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Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but…

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In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others,…

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“The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables…

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That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the…

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“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon…

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The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even…

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Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in…

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When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right and behalf… These traits stand in themselves on precisely the same level as colours, sounds, qualities of contact, taste and smell. Any criterion that finds the latter to be ultimate and "hard" data will, impartially applied,…

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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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 marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social…

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples…