John Dewey Quotes

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• Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
• The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
• If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
• As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
• Always make the other person feel important.
• Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
• We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
• Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
• Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
• In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they…
• The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
• Education is life itself.
• The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
• Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
• The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
• The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize…
• You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.
• Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
• Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
• All genuine education comes about through experience.

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