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• 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".

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• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

  John Dewey

  Happiness, Laughter, Unique

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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• In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.

  John Dewey

  Children, Teaching, Emotional

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Systematic

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• Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

  John Dewey

  Reason, Conclusion, Particular

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• The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

  John Dewey

  Democratic Ideals, May, Execution

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.75, 谷月社

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• A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

  John Dewey

  Book, Letters, May

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

  John Dewey

  Kings, Office, Letters

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• It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

  John Dewey

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dewey (2010). “The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Continuity Of Life, Needs

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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• When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Propose

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.25, 谷月社

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• The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Leader, Boss

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Kappa Delta Pi

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• The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.

  John Dewey

  Art, Knowledge, Class

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.237, SIU Press

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• The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Real, Artist

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• There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

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• In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

  John Dewey

  Doe, Stimulus, Objects

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.21, 谷月社

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• Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

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• One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

  John Dewey

  Heart, Deeds, Good Intentions

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• Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

  John Dewey

  Power, Ideas, Liberty

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.360, SIU Press

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• Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Men, Quality

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

  John Dewey

  Roots, Mind, Balance

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.280, University of Illinois Press

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• To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Care

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

  John Dewey

  Education, Science, Reality

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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