I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — 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
