"An idea is a method of evading, circumventing……" — John Dewey

"An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force."

— John Dewey

205 Quotes by John Dewey

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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

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