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Top 280 John Dewey Quotes (2025 Update)
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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.”
John Dewey Quote: “You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.”
John Dewey Quote: “Except in dealing with commonplaces and catch phrases one has to assimilate, imaginatively, something of another’s experience in order to tell him intelligently of one’s own experience.”
John Dewey Quote: “Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.”
John Dewey Quote: “Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.”
John Dewey Quote: “Leonardo virtually announced the birth of the method of modern science when he said that true knowledge begins with opinion.”
John Dewey Quote: “Mind as a concrete thing is precisely the power to understand things in terms of the use made of them; a socialized mind is the power to understand them in terms of the use to which they are turned in joint or shared situations. And mind in this sense is the method of social control.”
John Dewey Quote: “Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.”
John Dewey Quote: “It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.”
John Dewey Quote: “As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.”
John Dewey Quote: “The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal.”
John Dewey Quote: “In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.”
John Dewey Quote: “The premium so often put in schools upon external “discipline,” and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.”
John Dewey Quote: “The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.”
John Dewey Quote: “The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.”
John Dewey Quote: “Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.”
John Dewey Quote: “In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.”
John Dewey Quote: “A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.”
John Dewey Quote: “The phrase “think for one’s self” is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one’s self, it isn’t thinking.”
John Dewey Quote: “That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.”
John Dewey Quote: “Now in many cases – too many cases – the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.”
John Dewey Quote: “Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.”
John Dewey Quote: “It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say “that is red” instead of “that reddens,” either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.”
John Dewey Quote: “It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.”
John Dewey Quote: “Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.”
John Dewey Quote: “Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.”
John Dewey Quote: “Each individual that comes into the world is a new beginning; the universe itself is, as it were, taking a fresh start in him and trying to do something, even if on a small scale, that it has never done before.”
John Dewey Quote: “Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.”
John Dewey Quote: “Since the artist cares in a peculiar way for the phase of experience in which union is achieved, he does not shun moments of resistance and tension. He rather cultivates them, not for their own sake but because of their potentialities, bringing to living consciousness an experience that is unified and total.”
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