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John Dewey Quotes - Page 2

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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art, Expression, Individuality

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.226, Indiana University Press

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

Teaching, Essence, Inquiry

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

Men, Mind, Care

"Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Important, Desire, Human Nature

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Education, Future, Learning

John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Differences, World

John Dewey (2008). “The School and Society”, p.39, Aakar Books

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Inspirational, Time, Memories

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

Hunger not to have, but to be

Hunger

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.38, SIU Press

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Life, Confidence, Facts

John Dewey (2015). “Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding”, p.70, 谷月社

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Mistake, Failure, Thinking

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Thinking, Progress, World

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

School, Mean, Race

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

Thinking, Self, Phrases

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.312, SIU Press

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Genuine

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

Thinking, Facts

To me faith means not worrying.

Faith, Spiritual, Mean

John Dewey, Donald F Koch (2008). “Lectures on Ethics, 1900 - 1901: John Dewey”, p.140, SIU Press

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

Independent, Self, People

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Inspirational, Change, Integrity

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

Thought is impossible without words.

Impossible

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

Thinking, Creative, Facts

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

Art, Communication, Art Is

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.291, SIU Press

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

Educational, Past, Quality

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.173, 谷月社

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

Humble, Humility, Ifs

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

Gains, Joints, Action

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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