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John Dewey Quotes - Page 11

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The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ernest Nagel (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938”, p.42, SIU Press

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

Education, Growth, Literacy

That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.

Lying, Immature, Quality

John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

Reading, Men, Air

John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.

Communication, Views, Community

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.8, SIU Press

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

Philosophy, Healing, Technique

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.

Light, Hands, Organization

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.292, Sheba Blake Publishing

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

Reality, Inspire, Religion

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.26, Indiana University Press

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

Men, House, May

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.23, 谷月社

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.

Communication, Men, Order

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.10, Courier Corporation

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Government, Democracy, Form

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.93, SIU Press

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

Attitude, Acceptance, Ideas

John Dewey, Larry A. Hickman (2007). “The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought”, p.11, SIU Press

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

Cities, Government, Community

John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Education, Successful, Government

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.66, 谷月社

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

Regulation, Consciousness, Individual

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one to whom it is told another fact, not an idea. The communication may stimulate the other person to realize the question for himself and to think out a like idea, or it may smother his intellectual interest and suppress his dawning effort at thought. But what he directly gets cannot be an idea. Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think.

Communication, Wrestling, Thinking

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.166, SIU Press

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

Commitment, Criticism, Atheism

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.245, University of Illinois Press

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

Future, Science, Mind

John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.78, SIU Press

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

Fighting, Achievement, Victory

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.19, Courier Corporation

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

Education, Principles, Authority

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.66, 谷月社

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

Mean, Understanding, Sound

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.14, 谷月社

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

Honesty, Integrity, Moving

John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

Teaching, Learning, Care

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Sheba Blake Publishing

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

Ideal Society, Regard, Ideals

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

Country, School, Ties

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.230, SIU Press

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