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- The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into…
- Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.
- Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
- 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…
- 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 reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
- Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
- Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
- [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…
- 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…
- 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.
- We only think when we are confronted with problems.
- 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…
- The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in…
- The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
- One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
- We only think when we are confronted with a problem
- We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos
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