We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and… — 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
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — 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
