John Dewey Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• 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

• The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

  John Dewey

  Important, Desire, Human Nature

• Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

  John Dewey

  Running, Learning, School

• Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Democracy, Paper

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.226, SIU Press

• Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

  John Dewey

  Powerful, Class, Desire

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.38, SIU Press

• ...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Practice, Imagination

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