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From Quotes by John Dewey
- 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…
- I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the…
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
- Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,…
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it…
- To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
- We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from…
- 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 very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this…
- It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are…
- Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is…
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
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