"Man lives in a world of surmise, of……" — John Dewey
"Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties."
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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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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones,…
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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