John Dewey Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Progress, World

• I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Believe, Progress

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

• Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

  John Dewey

  Progress, Lapses, Insult

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

• A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

  John Dewey

  Progress, Important, Use

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.37, 谷月社

• But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Mean, Taught Us

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.87, Courier Corporation

• The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Views, Community

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.8, SIU Press

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