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John Dewey Quotes - Page 18

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Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

Wisdom, Thinking, Distribution Of Power

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.362, SIU Press

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

School, Army, Media

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.294, SIU Press

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

Thinking, Discovery, Ideas

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 5: Ethics: 1908”, p.268, SIU Press

Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.

Talking, Data, Justice

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.250, SIU Press

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

Attitude, Communication, Share

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

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

Giving, Mind, Quality

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.254, SIU Press

An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.

Philosophy, Recovery, Eye

Jo Ann Boydston, John Dewey, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature”, p.40, SIU Press

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.

Jobs, Character, Men

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

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

Philosophy, Real, Men

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.236, University of Illinois Press

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

Educational, Soul, Action

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Darnell Rucker (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1903-1906”, p.254, SIU Press

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

Country, Careers, Different

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.218, 谷月社

Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.

Educational, Struggle, School

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.187, 谷月社

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

Attitude, Communication, Ties

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

Breakup, Littles, Bows

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.14, SIU Press

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Death, Nature, Mean

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Order, Savages, Might

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

Thinking, Feelings, Association

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.12, 谷月社

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