When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — 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
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and… — 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
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need… — 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
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — 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
