All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — 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
“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
