John Dewey
John Dewey
John Deweywas an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. Although Dewey...
reading men air
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
mean thinking students
You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
school army media
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
art painting ifs
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
moving realization
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.
music moments harmony
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
philosophy finals inquiry
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
gains joints action
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
environment time-and-space
Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.
practice liberty individualism
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
teacher might taught
One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
mean independent mind
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
essence confusion discipline
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.