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Experience Quotes by John Dewey
- There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience…
- The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the…
- The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
- Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
- 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…
- Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
- All genuine education comes about through experience.
- No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one…
- The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
- Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations…
- We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning…
- As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help…
- We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.
- A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson