"Schools should take part in the great work……" — John Dewey
"Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done."
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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 Construction Quotes
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
— Russell Brand
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the…
— Edmund Burke
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.…
— Adam Carolla
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction…
— Adrienne Clarkson
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will…
— David Allan Coe
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and…
— Dominique Easley
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of…
— Nikki Giovanni
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to…
— Paulo Freire
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