Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something. — 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
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
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — 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
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril. — 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
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity,… — 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
