"Without the English, reason and philosophy would still……" — John Dewey

"Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France."

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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.

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More Despicable Quotes

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. — Albert Camus
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say… — Jimmy Carter
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I… — Jimmy Carter
A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and… — Matthew Henry
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have… — Adam Levine
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies. — Aesop
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable… — Philip Zimbardo
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain… — Ugo Betti
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man… — Richard Baxter
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner

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