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Practice Quotes by John Dewey

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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness…

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The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of…

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That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as…

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What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with…

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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies…

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...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from…

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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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