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Psychology Quotes by John Dewey

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Mind is a verb not a noun.

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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

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Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

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Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

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Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

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The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we…

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“Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with…

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Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single…

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Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some…

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Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake…

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Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,…

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The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering…

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The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the…

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Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own…

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It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their…

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A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment…

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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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“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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