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Association Quote by John Dewey

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“A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.”

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

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So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free…

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For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your…

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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

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While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

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Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

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The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive…

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Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research…

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[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

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The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.

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