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John Dewey Quotes - Page 5

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Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

Thinking, Connections, Done

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.113, 谷月社

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

Writing, Language, Partners

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.111, SIU Press

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

Ideas, Way, Students

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Kappa Delta Pi

Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.

Mean, Order, Adequate

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.29, Courier Corporation

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Goal, Perfection, Finals

John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.82, 谷月社

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

School, Order, Path

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Inspirational, Education, Mean

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

Nutrition, Social, Physiological

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

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

Communication, Democracy, Bars

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.227, SIU Press

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Mean, Doe, Belief

John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious

Children, School, Self

John Dewey (2013). “The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

Destiny, Atheism, Unseen

John Dewey (1960). “A Common Faith”, p.7, Yale University Press

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

Philosophy, Educational, Growth

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Kappa Delta Pi

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

Party, Communication, Common

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

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

Moral, Life Is, Share

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.345, Courier Corporation

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Teaching, May, Commodity

John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.140, SIU Press

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Lying, Science, Law

John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.15, 谷月社

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Knowledge, Mean, Information

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.189, Sheba Blake Publishing

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Beautiful, Flower, Men

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Order

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

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.1, Kappa Delta Pi

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Children, Self, Expression

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

Invasion, Inference, Leap

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.162, Sheba Blake Publishing

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

Understanding, Outcomes, Impossible

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

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Love, Inspirational, Life

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