"Democracy is a form of government only because……" — John Dewey
"Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association."
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205 Quotes by John Dewey
John Dewey has 205 quotes on this site.
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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More Association Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill…
— Michele Bachmann
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
— Harry Browne
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
— Herman Cain
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I…
— Herman Cain
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
— George Clooney
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than…
— Susan B. Anthony
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