Quotes by John Dewey

John Dewey

…compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called ‘practice’ from insight; of imagination from executive ‘doing.’ Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

Imagination

Practice

Writing

…the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

Harmony

Moments

Music

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

Competition

School

Skills

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

Moving

Realization

Tendencies

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Demand

Doe

Expectations

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.

Book

Letters

May

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Children

Fire

May

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view – as having a certain meaning.

Children

Might

Views

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Democracy

Form

Government

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

Action

Growing

Views

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Arriving

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Art Is

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Quotes by John Dewey

John Dewey

…the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

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.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view – as having a certain meaning.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

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