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John Dewey Quote: “The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.”
John Dewey Quote: “If a mans actions are not guided by thoughtful conclusions, then they are guided by inconsiderate impulse, unbalanced appetite, caprice, or the circumstances of the moment. To cultivate unhindered, reflective external activity is to foster enslavement, for it leaves the person at the mercy of appetite, sense and circumstance.”
John Dewey Quote: “I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.”
John Dewey Quote: “Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.”
John Dewey Quote: “Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.”
John Dewey Quote: “Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated.”
John Dewey Quote: “The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.”
John Dewey Quote: “Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one’s past and present acts.”
John Dewey Quote: “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 Quote: “Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.”
John Dewey Quote: “By 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 Quote: “Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.”
John Dewey Quote: “An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.”
John Dewey Quote: “The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.”
John Dewey Quote: “Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.”
John Dewey Quote: “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 Quote: “Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.”
John Dewey Quote: “The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to “bluff.””
John Dewey Quote: “Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.”
John Dewey Quote: “Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I’ll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love’s little bow Had laid time low.”
John Dewey Quote: “Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.”
John Dewey Quote: “It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.”
John Dewey Quote: “I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
John Dewey Quote: “By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”
John Dewey Quote: “The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.”
John Dewey Quote: “The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. To form habits of social usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching the child to swim by going through motions outside of the water.”
John Dewey Quote: “The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.”
John Dewey Quote: “Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.”
John Dewey Quote: “Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.”
John Dewey Quote: “The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.”
John Dewey Quote: “The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools.”
John Dewey Quote: “The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.”
John Dewey Quote: “I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.”
John Dewey Quote: “Who can reckon up the loss of moral power that arises from the constant impression that nothing is worth doing in itself, but only as a preparation for something else, which in turn is only a getting ready for some genuinely serious end beyond?”
John Dewey Quote: “We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.”
John Dewey Quote: “When “reality” is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.”
John Dewey Quote: “It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.”
John Dewey Quote: “Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil’s mind and the subject matter.”
John Dewey Quote: “The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.”
John Dewey Quote: “An intelligent home differs from an unintelligent one chiefly in that the habits of life and intercourse which prevail are chosen, or at least colored, by the thought of their bearing upon the development of children.”
John Dewey Quote: “The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.”
John Dewey Quote: “The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur. To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry – these are the essentials of thinking.”
John Dewey Quote: “When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.”
John Dewey Quote: “Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.”
John Dewey Quote: “We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.”
John Dewey Quote: “Since language represents the physical conditions that have been subjected to the maximum transformation in the interests of social life – physical things which have lost their original quality in becoming social tools – it is appropriate that language should play a large part compared with other appliances.”
John Dewey Quote: “The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.”
John Dewey Quote: “Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.”
John Dewey Quote: “We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions.”
John Dewey Quote: “Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.”
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