John Dewey Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Science, Reflection

  "Democracy And Education".

• Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.

  John Dewey

  Children, Views, Parent

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.72, 谷月社

• When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

  John Dewey

  Medicine, Humanity, Inquiry

  1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy.

• 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

• If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

  John Dewey

  Believe, Humanity, Lessons

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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