John Dewey Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Dewey
John Dewey Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.
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.
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.
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.
An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.