Educational Quote by John Dewey Download Open image “Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.” — John Dewey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Educational Extremes Likes Literature Mankind Nature of man Opposites Philosophy Term Thinking
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward,… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention, must remain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
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It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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