John Dewey Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Communication, Ties

• Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Language, Partners

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.111, SIU Press

• Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.

  John Dewey

  Talking, Data, Justice

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.250, SIU Press

• Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Ideas, Immature

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Mind, Sound

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

  John Dewey

  Sound, Connections, Facts

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.14, 谷月社

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