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Possession Quotes by John Dewey

9 Possession quotes by John Dewey

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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and…

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The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific…

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The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

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The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to…

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The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention…

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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for…

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Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who…

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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…

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There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be…

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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…

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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…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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