John Dewey Quotes

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• Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling. Calling
• Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of… Able
• The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. Capacity
• What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. All
• The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. Aim
• Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. Action
• Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society. Children
• The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… All
• Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. Adaptation
• The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do… Adapted
• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.… Adequate
• One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire. Education
• The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt. Confusion
• One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. Education
• Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier. Any
• Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied… Beat
• A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. Associated
• Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself. Education
• We only think when we are confronted with a problem Confronted
• We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos Action

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