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...
religious emotional views
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
beautiful flower men
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
inspirational time memories
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
teaching
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
quality groups needs
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.
school skills competition
[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others
communication wrestling thinking
No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one to whom it is told another fact, not an idea. The communication may stimulate the other person to realize the question for himself and to think out a like idea, or it may smother his intellectual interest and suppress his dawning effort at thought. But what he directly gets cannot be an idea. Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think.
democracies-have democracy generations
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
path resistance ruts
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
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.
war way heroic
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
mind mark posing
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
children giving parent
When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.
hunger
Hunger not to have, but to be