"Too rarely is the individual teacher so free……" — John Dewey
"Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter."
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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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Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more…
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We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that…
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Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a…
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There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike…
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All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There…
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and…
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When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries,…
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One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were…
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Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful,…
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