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John Dewey Quotes - Page 14

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When reality is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

Reality, Intellectual, Connotation

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.209, Indiana University Press

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

Important Relationships, Personality, Groups

John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.120, Courier Corporation

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Space, May, Environment

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

Education, Communication, Mean

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

School, Knowledge, Science

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, H. S. Thayer (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1910-1911”, p.77, SIU Press

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Mean, Vocabulary, Ordinary

John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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 marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.

Plato, Mean, Taught Us

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.87, Courier Corporation

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Community, Improvement, Problem

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

Education, Communication, Science

John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.77, SIU Press

While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.

Important, Connections, Purpose

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.14, Courier Corporation

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

Teaching, Responsibility, Imagination

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

Life, Pain, Science

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

Sake, Distinction, Mark

It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.

Growing, Red, Facts

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.253, SIU Press

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

School, Environment, Influence

John Dewey (1997). “Democracy And Education”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

Men, Medicine, Psychology

The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

Quality, Depends

John Dewey, Francis William Garforth (1966). “Selected educational writings”

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

World, Peril, Thinker

John Dewey (1958). “Experience and Nature”, p.222, Courier Corporation

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Men, History, Intellectual

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.61, SIU Press

If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.

Eye, Light, Function

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.21, 谷月社

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Facts, Groups, Birth

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

Greek, Ordinary, Way

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.24, Courier Corporation

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

Obstacles, Vain, Form

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.

Mean, Trying, Identity

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

Knowledge, Science, Knowing

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.313, Courier Corporation

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