| "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." John Dewey Quotes |
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| "For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities. Whatever value is possessed by the essay presented in this little volume resides in its attempt to call attention to the larger and deeper issues of Education so as to suggest their proper frame of reference." John Dewey Popular Quotes |
| "The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality." John Dewey |
| "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness." John Dewey Popular Quotes |
| A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience John Dewey Adages |
| A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline. John Dewey Quotations |
| Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey |
| Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey |
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| Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. John Dewey Quotations |
| Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. John Dewey Adages |
| As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure John Dewey |
| Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent. John Dewey Popular Quotes |
| Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. John Dewey |
| Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey Adages |
| Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself. John Dewey Popular Quotes |
| Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Adages |
| Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey |
| Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey Adages |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. John Dewey |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. from The Quest For Certainty John Dewey Popular Quotes |
| Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey Quotations |
| Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. John Dewey Popular Quotes |
| I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.My Pedagogic Creed, 1897 John Dewey Quotations |
| In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion. John Dewey |
| In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy John Dewey Quotes |
| Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it. John Dewey |
| It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated John Dewey |
| 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. John Dewey |
| 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. John Dewey Adages |
| Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Dewey Quotations |
| One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. John Dewey |
| Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. John Dewey |
| Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization. John Dewey Remarks |
| School is not preparation for life, but school is life John Dewey Quotes |
| 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. John Dewey |
| The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society. John Dewey Remarks |
| The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey |
| The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity. John Dewey |
| The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself John Dewey Adages |
| The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. John Dewey |
| The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools John Dewey |
| The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value. John Dewey |
| The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey |
| The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole. John Dewey |
| There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. John Dewey |
| There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due John Dewey Quotes |
| Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire. John Dewey |
| To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness John Dewey Adages |
| To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness John Dewey Sayings |
| To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey Sayings |
| To me faith means not worrying. John Dewey Remarks |
| We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. John Dewey |
| We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. John Dewey |
| We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos John Dewey Quotations |
| We only think when we are confronted with a problem John Dewey Remarks |
