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...
emotional purpose spirit
By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.
fighting achievement victory
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.
acting environment existence
Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.
mistake learning-from-mistakes learning-experience
We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.
life inspiring education
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
differences world
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
soil coins human-nature
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
democratic-ideals may execution
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.
roots mind balance
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.
children freedom thinking
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.
mistake failure thinking
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
names matter void
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.
equality term aim
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
shadow bigs big-business
Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.