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John Dewey Quotes - Page 4

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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Mind, Mark, Posing

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.28, Indiana University Press

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Education, Social Justice, Process

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Maturity, Growth, Process

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Kappa Delta Pi

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

Weed, Aim, Undesirable

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Function, Available

John Dewey (2005). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.395, Cosimo, Inc.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

Teacher, Teaching, Mind

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.83, 谷月社

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Men, World, Mystery

John Dewey (2005). “Art as Experience”, p.35, Penguin

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

Teacher, Teaching, Successful

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Educational, Ends, Process

John Dewey (2009). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.89, The Floating Press

Always make the other person feel important.

Life Changing, Important, Busy

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

Needs, Renewal, Process

Consensus demands communication.

Communication, Demand, Consensus

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

a problem well put is half solved.

Half, Problem, Wells

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ernest Nagel (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938”, p.112, SIU Press

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

Teacher, Teaching, Successful

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

Educational, Facts, Reason Why

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Mother, Nature, Home

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.34, SIU Press

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Education, Teacher, Learning

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

Teacher, Believe, Kingdoms

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

Teacher, Teaching, Practice

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

Attitude, Freedom, Responsibility

"The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939".

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Atheist, Men, Thinking

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.242, University of Illinois Press

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Teacher, Teaching, Giving

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.85, Kappa Delta Pi

Instruction is important.

Important, Instruction

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

Growth, Immaturity, Needs

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Change, Creativity, Science

The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11

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