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Mean Quotes by John Dewey
- I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
- 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,…
- Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
- 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…
- Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
- You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not…
- Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the…
- Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
- Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of…
- 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…
- 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 end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
- 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…
- To me faith means not worrying.
- The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
- Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
- The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.…
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- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
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