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...
roots mind balance
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.
attitude freedom responsibility
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
spiritual choices-made discovery
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
inspirational motivational business
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
teacher powerful teaching
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
long shadow substance
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
memories reflection sheep
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
pain growing-up thoughtful
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.
faith spiritual mean
To me faith means not worrying.
education future learning
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
democracies-have goal democracy
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
school mean immature
Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.
thinking community single-word
Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.
attitude good-man training
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.