John Dewey Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

  John Dewey

  Learning, School, Mean

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Facts, Reason Why

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

• In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.

  John Dewey

  Opportunity, Order, Numbers

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

• The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life.

  John Dewey

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Stephen Toulmin (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929”, p.204, SIU Press

• 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.

• When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.

  John Dewey

  Running, Intellectual, Purpose

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.

  John Dewey

  Exercise, Play, Names

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.227, Courier Corporation

• Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

  John Dewey

  School, Pouring, Ignored

• Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Ingredients, Study

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.181, 谷月社

• A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

  John Dewey

  Views, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.344, Courier Corporation

• Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

  John Dewey

  Emotional, Intellectual, Attention

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

• The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Loss, Religion

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.410, Indiana University Press

• 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

• Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

  John Dewey

  Quality, Groups, Needs

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

• Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Understanding, Sound

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

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