John Dewey Quotes

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• When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and…
• The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
• Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
• Thought is impossible without words.
• An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
• The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create…
• The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who…
• ...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
• You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not…
• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is…
• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,…
• The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
• Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences…
• Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the…
• The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods…
• Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.
• The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a…
• No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.
• The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
• By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are…

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