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 deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important
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Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
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Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.
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Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
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School is not preparation for life, but school is life
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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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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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Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.