Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or… — 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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one… — 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
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of… — 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
