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Individual Quotes by John Dewey
- 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…
- The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no…
- But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the…
- The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
- [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that…
- In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it…
- Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for…
- Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally…
- The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers 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 Individual Quotes
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are… — Scilla Elworthy
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield