Dewey Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age… — Gerald Early
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from… — Alfred North Whitehead
John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater… — Alfie Kohn
Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book â€˜Art as Experience,â€™ you canâ€™t separate experience… — Yusef Lateef
I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for… — Dewey Redman
In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A.… — Howard Gardner
Do you really think I should be out there with Officer Dewey? I mean, you saw Scream. The guy can't protect anybody. Everybody in that… — Alex Riley
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith… — Leon Wieseltier
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. — Spike Lee
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that. — Michelle Rodriguez
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes,… — Nick Hornby
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a… — Dashiell Hammett
Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library… — Neal Shusterman
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. — Brian Selznick
For the record, do I know anyone not a demon or a freak?â€ â€“ Nick â€œYes, you do. Not sure if Bubba and Mark go… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished… — Brian Selznick
There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages… — Libba Bray
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and… — Jasper Fforde
You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him. — Robert Taft

Who Wrote These Dewey Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Dewey Quotes as follows: