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...
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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.
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Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
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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.
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It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.
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We eat out all the time, and you have no idea what you're eating.
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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
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
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We only think when we are confronted with a problem
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Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.
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Those outages were caused by separate equipment failures,
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The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important
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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness
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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness
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The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures, ... But the cable itself is in good working order.