John Dewey Quotes

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• Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
• The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.
• Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle…
• Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
• To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the…
• I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.
• Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can…
• What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By…
• No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
• Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
• Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
• Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having…
• The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no…
• There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,…
• But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the…
• It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to…
• Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
• Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

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