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...
writing practice imagination
...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.
invasion inference leap
Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.
language enough
The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
views growing action
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.
animal men training
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.
mind verbs nouns
Mind is a verb not a noun.
imagination observation sensible
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.
ideal-society regard ideals
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
suffering connections enjoy
To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.
communication changed
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
thinking done connections
Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.
philosophy real men
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.
government democracy form
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
heart deeds good-intentions
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.