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Situation Quotes by John Dewey

10 Situation quotes by John Dewey

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A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use…

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That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as…

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I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations…

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A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for…

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When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

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The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the…

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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…

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In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own…

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

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The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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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…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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