John Dewey Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The 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 moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

  John Dewey

  Honesty, Integrity, Moving

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

• What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.

  John Dewey

  Character, Practice, Depth

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.

  John Dewey

  Jobs, Character, Men

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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