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 Copy Share Image
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into… — 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
A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association… — 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
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
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding 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
