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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

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.

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

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

John Dewey
Teaching, Growth, Quality
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.132, 谷月社

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

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

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

John Dewey
Quality, Way, Problem
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.249, SIU Press

That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.

John Dewey
Lying, Immature, Quality
John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

John Dewey
Quality, Development, Phases
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.188, 谷月社

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

John Dewey
Quality, Depends
John Dewey, Francis William Garforth (1966). “Selected educational writings”

Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

John Dewey
Quality, Groups, Needs
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

John Dewey
Attitude, Quality, Aversion
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.20, SIU Press

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.

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

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