John Dewey Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

  John Dewey

  Affair, Process, Constructive

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

• That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Practice

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

  John Dewey

  Light, Energy, Use

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.318, SIU Press

• 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

  Selfishness, Gains, Facts

  John Dewey (2008). “The School and Society”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

• Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Wonderful, Affair

  Jo Ann Boydston, John Dewey, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature”, p.132, SIU Press

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