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
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — 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
