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Ideas Quotes by John Dewey
- Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and…
- 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…
- Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty…
- 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…
- That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
- All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
- An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
- 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 path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.…
- In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as…
- When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and…
- The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.…
More Ideas Quotes
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera
- I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling