John Dewey Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

  John Dewey

  Past, Discipline, Effort

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.47, 谷月社

• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

• Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Past, Quality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.173, 谷月社

• Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Struggle, School

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.187, 谷月社

• A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

  John Dewey

  Past, Men, Littles

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

  John Dewey

  Past, Woods, Positively

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

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