Quality Quotes by John Dewey

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their…

— John Dewey

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a…

— John Dewey

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative…

— John Dewey

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem…

— John Dewey

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

— John Dewey

Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon…

— John Dewey

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in…

— John Dewey

That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the…

— John Dewey

It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and…

— John Dewey

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

— John Dewey

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey