"The acquisition of skills is not an end……" — John Dewey
"The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life"
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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 Acquisition Quotes
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the…
— Jane Austen
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen…
— John Cage
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
— Robert Bunsen
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -…
— Peter Drucker
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and…
— J. William Fulbright
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
— William James
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as…
— William James
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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