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Would be Quotes by John Dewey

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Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows…

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I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative…

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Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of…

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The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to…

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Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their…

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Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left…

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

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The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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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…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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