John DeweySchools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. ✨ John Dewey (1987). The Later Works, 1925-1953, p.411, SIU Press372Death
John DeweyUnless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of li… ▶362Life
John DeweyThe 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 ind… ▶362HumanityLife
John DeweyConfidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. ✨ John Dewey (2015). Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding, p.70, 谷月社374HumanityLifeTruth
John DeweyDemocracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is pu… ▶331HopeHumanityLife
John DeweyThe 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 ima… ▶331TimeTruth
John DeweyThe devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are… ▶364PoliticsTruth
John DeweyLanguage exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). The Later Works … ▶354Life
John DeweyThere is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational valu… ▶343DeathLifeTruth
John DeweyNot perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. ✨ John Dewey (2015). Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top … ▶321LifePhilosophy
John DeweyThe belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. ✨ John Dewey (2007). Experience A… ▶332Life
John DeweyWithout the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.311Philosophy
John DeweyThe most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. ✨ John Dewey (1998). Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition, p.49, Kappa Delt… ▶311Life
John DeweyComplete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.377Death
John DeweyThe plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion. ✨ John Dewey (1972).… ▶322LifeReading
John DeweyLiberty 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 larg… ▶356PoliticsThought
John DeweyThe bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is… ▶301HumanityPhilosophy
John DeweyWe have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as … ▶378Reading
John DeweyEvery one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach… ▶301LifePhilosophySadness
John DeweyKnowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself ✨ John Dewey (2008). The School and Society, p.4… ▶367Humanity
John DeweyIndependent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.301HopeHumanityTime
John DeweyWhat the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. ✨ The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum.301Humanity
John DeweyEducation as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process. ✨ John Dewey (1998). Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition, p.52, Kappa Delta Pi379LifeTime
John DeweyHunger not to have, but to be ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). The Poems of John Dewey, p.38, SIU Press379Reading
John DeweySome experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. ✨ John Dewey (1998). Exp… ▶291Life
John DeweyIn 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, p… ▶346Time
John DeweyBy reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. ✨ John Dewey (2015). Re… ▶357PhilosophyReading
John DeweySchools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order ✨ John Dewey (1987). The Later Works, 1925-1953, p.408, SI… ▶303Life
John DeweyIt is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. ✨ John Dewey (2010). The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and S… ▶3710Humanity
John DeweyEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ✨ The Quest for Certainty Ch. 113710Humor
