Social Quotes by John Dewey

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

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

— John Dewey

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

— John Dewey

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

— John Dewey

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

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we…

— John Dewey

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

— John Dewey

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

— John Dewey

Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon…

— John Dewey

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create…

— John Dewey

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task…

— John Dewey

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing…

— John Dewey

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into…

— John Dewey

While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association…

— John Dewey

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,…

— John Dewey

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it…

— John Dewey

A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are…

— John Dewey

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…

— John Dewey

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less…

— John Dewey

It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their…

— John Dewey

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and…

— John Dewey

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

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued…

— John Dewey

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

— John Dewey

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the…

— John Dewey

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

— John Dewey

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to…

— John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It…

— John Dewey

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a…

— John Dewey

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our…

— John Dewey

Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,…

— John Dewey

That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious…

— John Dewey

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity…

— John Dewey

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as…

— John Dewey

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.…

— John Dewey

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon…

— John Dewey

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared,…

— John Dewey

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social…

— John Dewey

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— John Dewey