John Dewey Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

  John Dewey

  Animal, Men, Training

• Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

  John Dewey

  Nature, Animal, Purpose

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

• Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.

  John Dewey

  Science, Animal, Men

• The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

  John Dewey

  Animal, Achievement, Humanity

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

• 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. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.

  John Dewey

  Pain, Animal, Immature

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.17, SIU Press

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