It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — 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
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as… — 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
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. — 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
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