Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of… — 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
Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world....genuine… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time… — 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
