John Dewey Quotes About Confusion

Quotes about: Confusion

• The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teacher, Thinking

  John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.11, 谷月社

• A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

  John Dewey

  Essence, Discipline, Confusion

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.98, 谷月社

• 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

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.120, SIU Press

• A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

  John Dewey

  Art, Lying, Spring

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.151, Courier Corporation

• The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.

  John Dewey

  Art, Children, Confusion

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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