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John Dewey Quotes - Page 8

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It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

Weed, Intelligent, Giving

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

Mean, Process

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

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Money, Stupid, Good Luck

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Belief, Troublesome, Alterations

John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

Book, Letters, May

John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

Mean, Systematic

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Mean, Desire, Used

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.321, SIU Press

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

Children, Philosophy, Educational

John Dewey (2010). “The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society”, Cosimo, Inc.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

Mean, Propose

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.25, 谷月社

There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

Kings, Office, Letters

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

Mean, Continuity Of Life, Needs

John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

Appreciation, Real, Artist

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Shadow, Bigs, Casts

John Dewey (1985). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932”, p.163, SIU Press

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Doe, Stimulus, Objects

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

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.

Art, Knowledge, Class

John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.237, SIU Press

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Teacher, Leader, Boss

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Kappa Delta Pi

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Heart, Deeds, Good Intentions

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

Power, Ideas, Liberty

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.360, SIU Press

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

Attitude, Men, Quality

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Courier Corporation

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

Roots, Mind, Balance

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.280, University of Illinois Press

The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.

Appreciation, Imagination, Engagement

John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.226, Courier Corporation

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Education, Science, Reality

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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