There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit. — 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
In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms… — 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
When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in. — 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
