"Unless our laboratory results are to give us……" — John Dewey
"Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life."
—
John Dewey
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
205 Quotes by John Dewey
John Dewey has 205 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
-
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
-
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
-
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
-
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
-
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
-
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
-
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
-
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
-
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
-
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
-
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
See all 205 quotes by John Dewey »
More Approximation Quotes
This quote is filed under Approximation Quotes,
one of 35 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem…
— Paulo Freire
-
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a…
— Charles Lamb
-
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of…
— Aristotle
-
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells…
— Bertrand Russell
-
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world…
— Muhammad Yunus
-
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
-
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and…
— Carl Rogers
-
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty
— Andrei Tarkovsky
-
Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and…
— Milan Kundera
-
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will…
— Ralph Merkle
-
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social…
— Noam Chomsky
See all 35 Approximation Quotes »