John Dewey Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

  John Dewey

  School, Opportunity, Office

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

• Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

  John Dewey

  Coins, Soil, Human Nature

  John Dewey (2012). “Human Nature and Conduct”, p.296, Courier Corporation

• We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Differences, Design

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.24, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

  John Dewey

  Death, Nature, Mean

• There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Men, Primitive Man

• Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Continuity Of Life, Needs

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

• The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

  John Dewey

  Environment, Individual, Surroundings

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homogeneous. But with the development of commerce, transportation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different traditional customs. It is this situation which has, perhaps more than any other one cause, forced the demand for an educational institution which shall provide something like a homogeneous and balanced environment for the young.

  John Dewey

  Country, Educational, Diversity

• An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

  John Dewey

  Influence, Environment, Surroundings

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

  John Dewey

  School, Environment, Influence

  John Dewey (1997). “Democracy And Education”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

  John Dewey

  Space, May, Environment

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.

  John Dewey

  Religious, School, Office

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

• Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

  John Dewey

  Acting, Way, Environment

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

  John Dewey

  Encouragement, Attitude, Facts

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.313, Courier Corporation

• A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

  John Dewey

  Expectations, Doe, Demand

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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