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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Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
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It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
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There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
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Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.
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Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.
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Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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.
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There is something going on at Northeastern. We sent a technician out there and all our equipment checked out fine. Right now the customer is looking at what issues they may have.
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School is not preparation for life, but school is life
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The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important
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Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
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Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.
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We only think when we are confronted with a problem