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Upon Quotes by John Dewey
- Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to…
- The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
- The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
- 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…
- The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who…
- It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,…
- The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
- [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…
- There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of…
- 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…
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- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant